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Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Mum at the school gate: "He's slow to warm up, he'll talk to you after a while." What is the boy like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, he, boy · What happens: be, warm up, talk · To what, where: you

This is test 13 · ★ 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: Mum at the school gate: "He's slow to warm up, he'll talk to you after a while."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slow	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gate	compound
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 slow	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 slow	punct
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slow	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slow	cop
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 warm	mark
12	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 slow	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 warm	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talk	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	aux
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 warm	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 talk	obl
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 while	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 slow	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 slow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mum at the school gate					slow property	tree rules
2	warm up in a quote	to-infinitive	Mum at the school gate not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	talk in a quote	future	he		you		while		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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 the boy like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 boy	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Shy with new people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 people	case
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shy	obl

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

Option 2

Late every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Late	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

Always cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Slow at sports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 sports	case
3	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Slow	obl

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

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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