Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…
Tabloid headline: "Pop star and actor ARE an item!" What does the headline claim?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Tabloid headline: "Pop star and actor ARE an item!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tabloid | tabloid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 headline | amod |
| 2 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
| 5 | Pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | compound |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 headline | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 actor | cc |
| 8 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | conj |
| 9 | ARE | are | ADP | _ | 11 item | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 item | det |
| 11 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What does the headline claim?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 claim | det |
| 4 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claim | compound |
| 5 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The two are in the same film
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 film | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 film | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 film | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 film | amod |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the two | the same film | tree rules |
Option 2
The two are selling something
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 selling | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 selling | aux |
| 4 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 selling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · progressive | the two | something | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
Option 3
The two are on a list
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 list | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 list | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 list | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 list | det |
| 6 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the two | a list | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The two are in a relationship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 relationship | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 relationship | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 relationship | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 relationship | det |
| 6 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the two | a relationship | 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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