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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family

Aunt: "Your cousin? Black sheep, love. Don't ask." What is the aunt saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, aunt · What happens: not ask, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Aunt: "Your cousin?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 cousin	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cousin	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousin	nmod:poss
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Aunt	punct

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

Sentence 2: Black sheep, love.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sheep	amod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	conj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sheep	punct

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

Sentence 3: Don't ask."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: What is the aunt saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aunt	det
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the aunt						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

The cousin is the family's shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shame	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shame	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shame	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 family	case
7	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cousin	the family's shame					tree rules

Option 2

The cousin has dark hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the cousin	dark hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 3

The cousin works on a sheep farm up north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 farm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farm	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farm	compound
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 north	advmod
9	north	north	ADV	_	3 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the cousin					on a sheep farm; north property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme

Option 4

The cousin is the oldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oldest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 oldest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oldest	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cousin					old property	tree rules

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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