Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth
A clothes shop label: "Husky fit – boys 8–16". What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: label · What happens: be
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: A clothes shop label: "Husky fit – boys 8–16".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 label | det |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 label | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 label | compound |
| 4 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 label | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 boys | punct |
| 7 | Husky | husky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boys | amod |
| 8 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boys | compound |
| 9 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 8 fit | punct |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 label | parataxis |
| 11 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 boys | flat |
| 12 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 13 16 | case |
| 13 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 8 | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 boys | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 label | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | label | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A jumper for husky dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jumper | det |
| 2 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 dogs | case |
| 4 | husky | husky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dogs | amod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jumper | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A large size for big boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 size | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 size | amod |
| 3 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 boys | case |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boys | amod |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 size | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Snow clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clothes | compound |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A fit for thin boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fit | det |
| 2 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 boys | case |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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