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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again." What is the neighbour saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad, neighbour · What happens: be, kick, say · To what, where: rough bloody handful, he · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rough	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neighbour	punct
3	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handful	amod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 handful	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 handful	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lad	nmod:poss
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handful	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 handful	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 handful	det
10	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handful	amod
11	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handful	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kicked	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 kicked	aux:pass
15	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 handful	acl:relcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fence	nmod:poss
17	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kicked	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 kicked	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 handful	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 handful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Your lad	a rough bloody handful					tree rules
2	kick in a quote	present · passive		he			again		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient fence=Result

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 neighbour 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 neighbour	det
4	neighbour	neighbour	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 neighbour						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The boy has big hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the boy	big hands					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

The boy is strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The boy is helpful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The boy is hard to control

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 control	mark
6	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					hard property	tree rules
2	control	to-infinitive	the boy not said here						vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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