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Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Uncle: "Strong-willed? He's a stubborn little mule!" What do both phrases mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle, phrases · What happens: will, be, mean · To what, where: stubborn little mule

This is test 13 · ★ 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: Uncle: "Strong-willed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 willed	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 willed	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 willed	punct
4	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 willed	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Strong	punct
6	willed	will	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 willed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	will in a quote	participle	Uncle						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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: He's a stubborn little mule!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mule	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mule	det
4	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mule	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mule	amod
6	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mule	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mule	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Uncle	a stubborn little mule					tree rules

Sentence 3: What do both phrases mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 phrases	det
4	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The child is defiant

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 defiant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 defiant	cop
4	defiant	defiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

The child is very clever

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 clever	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The child likes animals

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 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the child	animals					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme

Option 4

The child is very strong

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 strong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child					strong property	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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