Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now" What happened at bedtime?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: bedtime

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Babysitter	babysitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 text	compound
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 text	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 meltdown	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meltdown	det
8	meltdown	meltdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 bedtime	case
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meltdown	nmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 asleep	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asleep	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 text	conj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 happened	advmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 bedtime	case
20	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	she					asleep property	tree rules
2	happen	past				bedtime	now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bedtime=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

The heating broke down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heating	det
2	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 broke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	past	the heating						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She had a tantrum

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tantrum	det
4	tantrum	tantrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	a tantrum					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=Patient

Option 3

Her ice lolly melted

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 ice	nmod:poss
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	nsubj
3	lolly	lolly	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle	Her ice					lolly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She fell asleep straight away

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She					asleep, away property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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