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Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

An old novel: "Mrs Bennet's sister was a stout, cheerful woman." What does "stout" say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, stout · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: An old novel: "Mrs Bennet's sister was a stout, cheerful woman."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 novel	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 novel	amod
3	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 stout	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 stout	punct
6	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sister	nmod:poss
7	Bennet	Bennet	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mrs	flat
8	's	's	PART	_	6 Mrs	case
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stout	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stout	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stout	det
12	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 novel	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
14	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stout	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stout	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 stout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Mrs's sister					stout property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What does "stout" say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stout	punct
4	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stout	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	stout						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	cop
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

She was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					brave property	tree rules

Option 3

She was tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					tall property	tree rules

Option 4

She was cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					cross property	tree rules

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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