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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Uncle: "Boisterous? Mate, they wrecked the garden." What does it tell you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, garden · What happens: wreck, tell · To what, where: garden, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» 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: Uncle: "Boisterous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Boisterous	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Boisterous	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Boisterous	punct
4	Boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Boisterous	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Mate, they wrecked the garden."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrecked	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrecked	nsubj
4	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrecked	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrecked	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past	they	the garden				Mate vocative	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

Sentence 3: What does it tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	garden		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The children did the gardening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gardening	det
5	gardening	gardening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the children	the gardening					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardening=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The children were rough and noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rough	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rough	cop
4	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 noisy	cc
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children					rough property	tree rules
2	be		the children not said here						tree rules

Option 3

The children were asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children					asleep property	tree rules

Option 4

The children were quiet and polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quiet	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 polite	cc
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children					quiet property	tree rules
2	be		the children 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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