Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…
News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night." What did the police deal with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Police · What happens: attend, do · To what, where: police deal
This is test 3 · ★ 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: News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attended | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 attended | punct |
| 4 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attended | nsubj |
| 5 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 7 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Road | case |
| 9 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | compound |
| 10 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 domestic | obl |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attended | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attended | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 attended | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend in a quote | past | Police | night | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V 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: What did the police deal with?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deal | compound |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 deal | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the police deal | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A violent quarrel at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarrel | det |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quarrel | amod |
| 3 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarrel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A broken shop window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 window | amod |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 window | compound |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
A lost dog in the street
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A car crash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crash | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crash | compound |
| 3 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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