Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…
A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm". Her big sister rolls her eyes. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little girl, hamster, big sister · What happens: say, go, live, roll · To what, where: farm, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hamster | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 farm | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 farm | det |
| 13 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a little girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | girl's hamster | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | girl's hamster not said here | a farm | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location |
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: Her big sister rolls her eyes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolls | nsubj |
| 4 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolls | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | girl's big sister | girl's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent |
Sentence 3: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hamsters hate farms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamsters | hamster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Hamsters | farms | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farm=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The hamster probably died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hamster | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the hamster | probably property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
The farm is too far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farm | det |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the farm | away, far property | tree rules |
Option 4
The sister wanted the hamster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hamster | det |
| 5 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the sister | the hamster | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hamster=Theme |
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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