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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door. What does Dad mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son, Dad · What happens: come, slam, mean · To what, where: little darling, door

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sarcastic	punct
3	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 comes	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Oh	advmod
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dad	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 darling	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 darling	amod
12	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 darling	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 darling	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 slams	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slams	nsubj
18	slams	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slams	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present		the little darling					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darling=Theme
2	slam	present	his son	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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 does Dad mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The son is sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sweet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sweet	cop
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

The son is a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 baby	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The son is behaving badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 behaving	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 behaving	aux
4	behaving	behave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 behaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	present · progressive	the son					badly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The son is small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the son					small 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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