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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Report: "Ethan has a strong personality and likes to lead games his way." What may it really mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, personality · What happens: have, like, lead, mean · To what, where: strong personality, games

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Report: "Ethan has a strong personality and likes to lead games his way."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
4	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Report	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 personality	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 personality	amod
8	personality	personality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 likes	cc
10	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lead	mark
12	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 likes	xcomp
13	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lead	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lead	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Ethan	a strong personality					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personality=Patient
2	like in a quote	present	Ethan not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	lead not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Ethan not said here	games					tree rules

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 may it really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	may	personality						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ethan is the best athlete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 athlete	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 athlete	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 athlete	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 athlete	amod
5	athlete	athlete	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ethan is bossy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bossy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bossy	cop
3	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ethan					bossy property	tree rules

Option 3

Ethan is quiet and shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quiet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shy	cc
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quiet	conj

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

Option 4

Ethan is very strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ethan					strong property	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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