Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth
Dad laughs: "Your little brother? Happy accident, mate. Best one ever." What does Dad mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: laugh, mean · To what, where: little brother
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 11 «Soft words for hard things: 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: Dad laughs: "Your little brother?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Dad | Your little brother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Happy accident, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 accident | amod |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accident | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accident | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Best one ever."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 one | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: What does Dad mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | Dad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The brother was not planned but is loved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 planned | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 planned | advmod |
| 5 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 loved | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | aux:pass |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 planned | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not plan | past · passive | the brother | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | love | present · passive | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF» |
Option 2
The brother was hurt in an accident
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux:pass |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 accident | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 accident | det |
| 7 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | the brother | a accident | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
The brother was found by chance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 chance | case |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | chance | the brother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
Option 4
The brother is clumsy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clumsy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clumsy | cop |
| 4 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brother | clumsy 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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