Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…
Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." What really happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freddie, Teacher · What happens: make, push, note, happen · To what, where: bad choice, lunch, friend
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 note | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Teacher | case |
| 3 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 note | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 choice | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 choice | amod |
| 10 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 lunch | case |
| 12 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 note | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 note | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | Freddie | a bad choice | lunch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product | |||
| 2 | push in a quote | past | Freddie not said here | a friend | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | note | Teacher | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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 really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Freddie chose the wrong friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Freddie | the wrong friend | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
Option 2
Freddie chose cold pasta
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pasta | amod |
| 4 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Freddie | cold pasta | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Freddie pushed someone and misbehaved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 pushed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 misbehaved | cc |
| 5 | misbehaved | misbehave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pushed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Freddie | someone | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | misbehave | participle | Freddie not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Freddie forgot his lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Freddie | Freddie's lunch | 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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