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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

Grandpa: "That lad's well known to staff, I'll tell you that." What does Grandpa mean about the lad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandpa · What happens: know, tell, mean · To what, where: lad, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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: Grandpa: "That lad's well known to staff, I'll tell you that."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct
4	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	nsubj:pass
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 known	aux:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 known	advmod
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Grandpa	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 staff	case
10	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grandpa	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 you	nmod:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present · passive		that lad				to staff; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Grandpa		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 Grandpa mean about the lad?

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	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 lad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

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

The options

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

He is often in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trouble	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 trouble	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

He works at the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 school	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	He					at the school	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at school=Theme

Option 3

He is the best pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pupil	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pupil	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pupil	amod
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

He is famous on TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 famous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 famous	cop
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 TV	case
5	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 famous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			TV		famous 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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