Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family
Teen: "nah he's footloose and fancy-free now, dumped her last week." What does it tell you?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teen, it · What happens: be, dump, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Teen: "nah he's footloose and fancy-free now, dumped her last week."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dumped | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 footloose | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 footloose | punct |
| 4 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 footloose | discourse |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 footloose | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 footloose | cop |
| 7 | footloose | footloose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Teen | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 free | cc |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 free | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fancy | punct |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 footloose | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 free | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teen | punct |
| 14 | dumped | dump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 week | nmod:poss |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 week | amod |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dumped | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 dumped | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 dumped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Teen | footloose property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Teen not said here | now | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dump in a quote | past | Teen | week | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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 does it tell you?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | it | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He is dancing barefoot
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 dancing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dancing | aux |
| 3 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | barefoot | barefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dancing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present · progressive | He | barefoot | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barefoot=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He is single 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 | 3 single | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 single | cop |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 single | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | now | single property | tree rules |
Option 3
He is away on holiday
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 away | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 away | cop |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 holiday | case |
| 5 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 away | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | holiday | away property | tree rules |
Option 4
He lost his shoes
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 | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | He | his shoes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |
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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