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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family

Old aunt, rough: "Thirty and still on the shelf, poor thing." What does she mean (unkindly)?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: mean

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Old aunt, rough: "Thirty and still on the shelf, poor thing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 aunt	amod
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rough	punct
4	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 aunt	amod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Thirty	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Thirty	punct
7	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 aunt	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shelf	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	12 shelf	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shelf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Thirty	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aunt	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 aunt	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 aunt	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What does she mean (unkindly)?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 unkindly	punct
6	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	_	4 mean	obj
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 unkindly	punct
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	she						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She thinks the woman is tidy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tidy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tidy	cop
6	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the woman					tidy property	tree rules

Option 2

The woman works in a library

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 library	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 library	det
6	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the woman					in a library	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in library=Theme

Option 3

The woman cannot reach the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 reach	advmod
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelf	det
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the woman	the shelf					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She thinks the woman is too old to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the woman					old property	tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive	the woman not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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