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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Mum on the phone: "Sorry, she's tired, she's been screaming for an hour." What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, she · What happens: be, scream, go on

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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: Mum on the phone: "Sorry, she's tired, she's been screaming for an hour."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tired	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sorry	punct
7	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	11 tired	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sorry	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tired	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tired	cop
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 screaming	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 screaming	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 screaming	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 screaming	aux
16	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 tired	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 hour	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screaming	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mum on the phone					tired property	tree rules
2	scream speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	she				hour		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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: What is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The child is sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	the child						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The child is having a tantrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 having	aux
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tantrum	det
6	tantrum	tantrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · progressive	the child	a tantrum					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=Patient

Option 3

The child is resting quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resting	aux
4	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 resting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present · progressive	the child					quietly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The child went jogging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jogging	jog	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the child						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	jog	gerund	the child not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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