Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family
News: "The prince, who has been estranged from his family, flew home alone." What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: News · What happens: estrange, fly, be · To what, where: prince, family
This is test 4 · ★ 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: News: "The prince, who has been estranged from his family, flew home alone."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 News | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 estranged | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 estranged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 estranged | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 estranged | aux:pass |
| 10 | estranged | estrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prince | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 estranged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estrange in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the prince | News's family | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | past | News the prince | alone, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He and his family are not in contact
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 contact | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 family | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 contact | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 contact | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 contact | case |
| 8 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | He | contact | tree rules |
Option 2
He was lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | He | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 3
He is a stranger to all of them now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stranger | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stranger | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 stranger | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stranger | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a stranger | now | to all | tree rules |
Option 4
He was adopted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 adopted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 adopted | aux:pass |
| 3 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · passive | He | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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