Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Rude brother: "shift over, you're well-upholstered, you take up the whole sofa" — what is he saying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rude brother, you, brother · What happens: shift over, upholster, take up, say · To what, where: you, whole sofa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shift	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 shift	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shift	punct
5	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 shift	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 upholstered	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 upholstered	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 upholstered	aux:pass
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 upholstered	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	upholstered	upholster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shift	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shift	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sofa	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sofa	amod
19	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 saying	obj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	aux
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saying	nsubj
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shift	conj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shift over in a quote	infinitive	Rude brother		over property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	upholster in a quote	present · passive		you	well property	tree rules
3	take up in a quote	present	you	the whole sofa		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sofa=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

His sister is fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His sister					fat property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

His sister bought a new sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sofa	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sofa	amod
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	His sister	a new sofa					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sofa=Theme

Option 3

His sister has many cushions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cushions	amod
5	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	His sister	many cushions					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient

Option 4

His sister is lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lazy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His sister					lazy property	tree rules

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