Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…
Jess says a "harvested" deer means it was picked like an apple. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jess, harvested deer · What happens: say, harvest, mean, pick · To what, where: deer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Jess says a "harvested" deer means it was picked like an apple.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jess | Jess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 harvested | punct |
| 5 | harvested | harvest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deer | amod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 harvested | punct |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 picked | aux:pass |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | ccomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 apple | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 apple | det |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | harvest in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | a harvested deer | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pick | past · passive | deer | like a apple | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, it means it was photographed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 photographed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 photographed | aux:pass |
| 7 | photographed | photograph | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | photograph | past · passive | it | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, it means it was fed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fed | aux:pass |
| 7 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feed | past · passive | it | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, deer grow on farms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 grow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 farms | case |
| 6 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | deer | farms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, it means it was killed by a hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux:pass |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 hunter | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | a hunter | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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