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Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Ella reckons "love handles" are handles on a heart-shaped mug. Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, love handles · What happens: reckon, be, shape · To what, where: handles

This is test 8 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: Ella reckons "love handles" are handles on a heart-shaped mug.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 handles	punct
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handles	compound
5	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 handles	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 handles	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 handles	cop
8	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckons	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	14 mug	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mug	det
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaped	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 heart	punct
13	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mug	amod
14	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ella					on a shaped mug	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on mug=Theme
2	is a	present	love handles	handles					tree rules
3	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

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

No, it means fat around the waist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 waist	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waist	det
8	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	fat		the waist			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Topic

Option 2

Yes, they are on mugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 mugs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mugs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mugs	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 mugs	case
6	mugs	mug	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			mugs			tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they are on door knobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 knobs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knobs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 knobs	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knobs	case
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knobs	compound
7	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			door knobs			tree rules

Option 4

No, it means holding hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	gerund		hands					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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