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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Dad, snapping: "Right, naughty step, now. Three minutes." What is happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: snap, happen · To what, where: naughty step

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Dad, snapping: "Right, naughty step, now.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapping	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 snapping	punct
3	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 step	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 step	punct
6	Right	right	INTJ	_	9 step	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 step	punct
8	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 step	amod
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapping	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 now	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 step	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snapping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	gerund	Dad	naughty step					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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: Three minutes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 minutes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 minutes	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happening	aux
3	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a game					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The child is being punished

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	5 punished	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 punished	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 punished	aux:pass
5	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present · passive		the child					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The child is going upstairs to bed

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 going	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	the child			bed		upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 4

The step is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 step	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the step					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «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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