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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Mum to cousin: "Don't worry, it's the terrible twos, it'll pass." What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, Mum · What happens: not worry, be, pass, mean · To what, where: terrible twos

This is test 11 · ★ 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 to cousin: "Don't worry, it's the terrible twos, it'll pass."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 cousin	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 worry	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 worry	punct
6	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 worry	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 worry	advmod
8	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 cousin	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 twos	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 twos	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 twos	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 twos	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 twos	amod
14	twos	two	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worry	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pass	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pass	aux
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worry	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not worry in a quote	infinitive · do-support							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	cousin	the terrible twos					tree rules
3	pass in a quote	future	cousin						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Mum						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

The twins are terrible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 twins	det
2	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrible	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 terrible	cop
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Two is a bad number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 number	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 number	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Something bad will happen twice more before it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 happen	nsubj
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Something	amod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 happen	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 stops	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future	Something	more					tree rules
2	stop	present	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The toddler's bad behaviour is a normal stage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toddler	det
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behaviour	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 toddler	case
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 behaviour	amod
5	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stage	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stage	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stage	det
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stage	amod
9	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the toddler's bad behaviour	a normal stage					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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