Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

"Dad says Max was rehomed, so he's alive right?" — is Max alive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Max · What happens: say, rehom, be · To what, where: Max, alive right · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rehomed	aux:pass
6	rehomed	rehom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Max	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 right	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 right	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 right	amod
12	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 Max	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Max	cop
17	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 right	nmod
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Max	amod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	rehom in a quote	past · passive		Max not said here	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Max	alive right	tree rules
4	is a	present		Max	tree rules

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

No, he was put down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past · passive		he					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he was given to new owners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 given	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 owners	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 owners	amod
8	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		he	new owners				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to owner=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, he is still in the house with Dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 house	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Dad	case
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			the house	still	with Dad	tree rules

Option 4

No, he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
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	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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