Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

"Dad says the dog's being done on Tuesday, done with what lol" — what is happening Tuesday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: say, do, happen · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 says	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj:pass
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Tuesday	case
10	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 done	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 done	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 done	obl
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	14 what	discourse
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 lol	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 happening	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happening	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 happening	aux
20	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 done	advcl
21	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 happening	obl:unmarked
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	gerund · passive		the dog	tuesday	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	do in a quote	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	happen	present · progressive			tuesday	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 · ← Mova's choice

The dog is finishing school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finishing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finishing	aux
4	finishing	finish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · progressive	the dog	school					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector school=Eventuality

Option 2

The dog is being cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cooked	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cooked	aux:pass
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · passive		the dog					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dog is being neutered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neutered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 neutered	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 neutered	aux:pass
5	neutered	neuter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neuter	present · passive		the dog					tree rules

Option 4

The dog is being sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sold	aux:pass
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · passive		the dog					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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