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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Little Lily: "Mummy says I came from under a cabbage!" What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Lily · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: cabbage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Little Lily: "Mummy says I came from under a cabbage!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lily	amod
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 cabbage	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 cabbage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cabbage	det
12	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express in a quote	present	Little Lily						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	past	Little Lily = lily			a cabbage			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cabbage=Initial_Location

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lily is a gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gardener	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gardener	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lily	a gardener					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mummy used a funny story instead of explaining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 explaining	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 used	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Mummy	a funny story					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	Mummy not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Lily was really found in a garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		Lily		a garden			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Lily was born in a vegetable patch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 patch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 patch	det
6	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 patch	compound
7	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Lily		a vegetable patch			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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