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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family

Friend: "Mum and Dad are taking some time apart. Dad's at Gran's." What is likely happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Friend, Dad · What happens: take, be, happen · To what, where: Gran

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Friend: "Mum and Dad are taking some time apart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Friend	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Dad	cc
6	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mum	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	aux
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 taking	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present · progressive	Friend				time	apart property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Dad's at Gran's."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Gran	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Gran	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Gran	case
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Gran	case
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Gran	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Gran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad			Gran			tree rules

Sentence 3: What is likely happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 likely	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	happen	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Gran is ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

They are redecorating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 redecorating	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 redecorating	aux
3	redecorating	redecorate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	redecorate	present · progressive	They						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Dad is on holiday at the seaside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holiday	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holiday	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 holiday	case
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 seaside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seaside	det
7	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holiday	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad			holiday		at the seaside	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The parents are separating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 separating	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 separating	aux
4	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	present · progressive	the parents						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «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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