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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family

Divorce announcement: "Citing irreconcilable differences, the couple will divorce." Why are they divorcing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: couple, differences · What happens: cite, divorce

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 13 «Soft words for hard things: 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: Divorce announcement: "Citing irreconcilable differences, the couple will divorce."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 announcement	compound
2	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 differences	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Citing	punct
5	Citing	cite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 differences	amod
6	irreconcilable	irreconcilable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 differences	amod
7	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 announcement	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 divorce	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 couple	det
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 divorce	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 divorce	aux
12	divorce	divorce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 differences	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 divorce	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 divorce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cite in a quote	gerund							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	divorce in a quote	future	the couple						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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: Why are they divorcing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 divorcing	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 divorcing	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 divorcing	nsubj
4	divorcing	divorce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 divorcing	punct

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

The options

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

They say they can no longer get on

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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get on	can	they					long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They have different jobs in different towns

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jobs	amod
4	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 towns	case
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 towns	amod
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	different jobs		different towns			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient

Option 3

They are moving countries

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 moving	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moving	aux
3	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present · progressive	They	countries					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme

Option 4

They want to save money

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 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 save	mark
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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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