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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family

Status update: "Relationship: it's complicated." What is the person saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: update, person · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Status update: "Relationship: it's complicated."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 update	compound
2	update	update	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Relationship	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Relationship	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Relationship	punct
5	Relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 complicated	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 complicated	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 complicated	cop
9	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Relationship	appos
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 complicated	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 complicated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	update					complicated property	tree rules

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 the person 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 person	det
4	person	person	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 person						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 relationship is unclear or messy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 relationship	det
2	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unclear	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unclear	cop
4	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 messy	cc
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unclear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the relationship					unclear property	tree rules
2	be		the relationship not said here						tree rules

Option 2

They have no relationship at all

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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 relationship	det
4	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 relationship	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	no relationship		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Patient

Option 3

They are learning maths

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 learning	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learning	aux
3	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	They	maths					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Topic

Option 4

They are married and happy

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 married	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 happy	cc
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 married	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present · passive		They					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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