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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Grandma laughing: "Oh, he's high-spirited, that one!" as he jumps on the sofa. What is she saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandma, he · What happens: laugh, spirit, jump, say · To what, where: sofa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Grandma laughing: "Oh, he's high-spirited, that one!" as he jumps on the sofa.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughing	nsubj
2	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 spirited	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spirited	punct
5	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 spirited	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Oh	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spirited	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spirited	aux
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirited	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 high	punct
11	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 laughing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spirited	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 jumps	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jumps	nsubj
19	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spirited	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 sofa	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sofa	det
22	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumps	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	Grandma						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spirit in a quote	present · passive	he						tree rules
3	jump	present	he			the sofa			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Trajectory

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 is she saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Grandma						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is noisy and unruly

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

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

Option 2

He believes he saw a ghost

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	2 believes	nsubj
2	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believes	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ghost	det
6	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	he	a ghost					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

Option 3

He is good at high jumps

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 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 jumps	case
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jumps	amod
6	jumps	jump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			high jumps		good property	tree rules

Option 4

He is very happy and calm

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 happy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 calm	cc
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happy	conj

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