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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: diary · What happens: go, happen · To what, where: last

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 diary	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Nan	case
3	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 1962	punct
5	1962	1962	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 diary	appos
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Bill	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Bill	punct
8	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 diary	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 I	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Bill	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 going	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 going	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	Nan's diary and Bill			last		steady property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bill learned to drive carefully and slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 drive	mark
4	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	xcomp
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 drive	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slowly	cc
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 carefully	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Bill						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	to-infinitive	Bill not said here					carefully property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They stopped running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	run	gerund	They not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They both got jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	jobs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bill and Nan became a serious couple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Nan	cc
3	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bill	conj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 couple	det
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couple	amod
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Bill and Nan	a serious couple					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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