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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Teacher's old note: "Comes from a broken home, be gentle with him." What does the note mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old note, Teacher, note · What happens: break, be, note, mean

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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: Teacher's old note: "Comes from a broken home, be gentle with him."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 note	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Teacher	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 note	amod
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gentle	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Comes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Comes	punct
7	Comes	come	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 note	appos
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 home	det
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 home	amod
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Comes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 note	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 gentle	cop
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gentle	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 gentle	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 gentle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	infinitive	Teacher's old note					with Teacher; gentle property	tree rules
3	note		Teacher						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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: What does the note mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 note	det
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

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

The options

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

His parents have divorced

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 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 divorced	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 divorced	aux
4	divorced	divorce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divorce	present · perfect	His parents						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He breaks things at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaks	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	He	things		home			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient

Option 3

His house was damaged

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 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 damaged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 damaged	aux:pass
4	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	past · passive		His house					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

He is homeless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 homeless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 homeless	cop
3	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					homeless 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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