Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

"vet said we gotta put Bella to sleep :(" — what is going to happen to Bella?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: vet, we · What happens: say, gotta, put, sleep, go, happen · To what, where: Bella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gotta	nsubj
5	gotta	gotta	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gotta	ccomp
7	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	advcl
10	:(	:(	SYM	_	5 gotta	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gotta	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 going	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 happen	mark
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Bella	case
19	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 happen	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	vet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gotta in a quote	past	we		tree rules
3	put in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	Bella	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bella=Goal
4	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	present · progressive			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen	to-infinitive		Bella	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Bella will stay the night at the vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl:unmarked
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 vet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vet	det
8	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	Bella			the vet	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at vet=Location

Option 2

Bella will have a nap after her jab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nap	det
5	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 jab	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 jab	nmod:poss
8	jab	jab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	Bella	a nap			after Bella's jab		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient
2	jab		Bella						nom jab «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Bella will get a long rest at the vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rest	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rest	amod
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 vet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vet	det
9	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	Bella	a long rest		the vet			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at vet=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The vet will end her life gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vet	det
2	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obj
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 end	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	future	the vet	vet's life				gently property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality

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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