Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…
Aunt: "Kids gone to uni, house is so quiet. Proper empty nester now." What has happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kids, Aunt · What happens: go, be, happen · To what, where: Aunt
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Aunt: "Kids gone to uni, house is so quiet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quiet | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 4 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Aunt | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 uni | case |
| 7 | uni | uni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 house | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uni | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 quiet | advmod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 quiet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | participle | Kids | Aunt not said here | to uni and house | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Aunt | quiet 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.
Sentence 2: Proper empty nester now."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nester | amod |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nester | amod |
| 3 | nester | nester | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 nester | advmod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nester | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nester | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What has happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | aux |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her children have moved out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 children | nmod:poss |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | aux |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 moved | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move out | present · perfect | Her children | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Her birds flew south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 birds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | south | south | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Her birds | south property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Her pets ran away from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pets | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | Her pets | home | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory |
Option 4
She sold her furniture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sold | nsubj |
| 2 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 furniture | nmod:poss |
| 4 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | She | her furniture | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme |
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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