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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Nursery worker: "She's just having a moment, give her a minute." What is the child doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: worker, Nursery worker, child · What happens: have, give, do · To what, where: Nursery worker, her

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Nursery worker: "She's just having a moment, give her a minute."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worker	compound
2	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
5	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 having	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 having	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 having	advmod
8	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 worker	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 having	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 worker	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 minute	det
15	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · progressive	worker	Nursery worker not said here			moment		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient
2	give in a quote	infinitive	Nursery worker		her = she		minute		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 child doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Playing a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		a game					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Having a tantrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tantrum	det
3	tantrum	tantrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj

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

Option 3

Taking a nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nap	det
3	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a nap					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme

Option 4

Counting to sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 sixty	case
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund						to sixty	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to sixty=Experiencer

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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