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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Press release: "After much thought, we have decided to consciously uncouple." What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: decide, uncouple, happen · To what, where: Press release

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Press release: "After much thought, we have decided to consciously uncouple."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 release	compound
2	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 decided	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 decided	punct
5	After	after	ADP	_	7 thought	case
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	amod
7	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decided	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 decided	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 decided	aux
11	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 release	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 uncouple	mark
13	consciously	consciously	ADV	_	14 uncouple	advmod
14	uncouple	uncouple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 decided	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 release	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 release	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide in a quote	present · perfect	we	Press release not said here			after much thought		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent release=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	uncouple not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here					consciously property	tree rules

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 really happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

They had a baby

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	a baby					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 2

They got married

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 married	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		They					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

They joined a yoga class together

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 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 class	det
4	yoga	yoga	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 class	compound
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joined	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 joined	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	They	a yoga class				together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The couple are splitting up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splitting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 splitting	aux
4	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 splitting	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split up	present · progressive	the couple						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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