Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family
Gossip: "His lady friend? Oh, she's been round every day since Easter." Who is she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: be · To what, where: day
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Gossip: "His lady friend?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 4 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | compound |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gossip | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gossip | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Oh, she's been round every day since Easter."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 day | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 day | cop |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 day | cop |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 Easter | case |
| 10 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | friend | every day | since Easter | round property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Who is she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Who | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | friend | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His cleaner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cleaner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His carer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 carer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His girlfriend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 girlfriend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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