Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Classmate, Sat · What happens: be, see · To what, where: weekend dad, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dad	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dad	punct
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dad	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dad	det
7	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	compound
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Classmate	appos
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 dad	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Sun.	cc
16	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sat	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 true	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 true	cop
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Sat	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dad	a weekend dad	now		tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	Classmate	him = he	saturday		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	present	Sat and Sun.			true property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

Dad lives with him all week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Dad				week	with him = he	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His parents live apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	His parents					apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Dad is away on a holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 away	cop
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 holiday	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 holiday	det
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad			a holiday		away property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dad works only at weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 weekends	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 weekends	case
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Dad				weekend		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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