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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Mum, exhausted: "He's not even 3 and he's a total threenager." What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, He · What happens: exhaust, not be, be, mean · To what, where: 3, total threenager

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Mum, exhausted: "He's not even 3 and he's a total threenager."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exhausted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
3	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 exhausted	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 3	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 3	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 3	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 3	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 3	advmod
10	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 exhausted	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threenager	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threenager	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 threenager	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 threenager	det
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 threenager	amod
16	threenager	threenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exhausted	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 threenager	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 threenager	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhaust	past	Mum						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a in a quote	present	He	3					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	he	a total threenager					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.

Sentence 2: What does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He acts very grown-up and helpful

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	4 grown	nsubj
2	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 grown	advmod
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helpful	cc
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	He						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He is defiant and moody

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	3 defiant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 defiant	cop
3	defiant	defiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 moody	cc
5	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 defiant	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					defiant property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 3

He is thirteen

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	3 thirteen	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thirteen	cop
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	thirteen					tree rules

Option 4

He is very tall

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					tall 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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