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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

An advert says: "Our chickens are humanely processed." What happens to the chickens?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: advert · What happens: say, process, happen · To what, where: chickens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: An advert says: "Our chickens are humanely processed."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 advert	det
2	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 processed	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 processed	punct
6	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chickens	nmod:poss
7	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 processed	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 processed	aux:pass
9	humanely	humanely	ADV	_	10 processed	advmod
10	processed	process	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 processed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 processed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a advert						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	process in a quote	present · passive		Our chickens				humanely property	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.

Sentence 2: What happens to the chickens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 chickens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chickens	det
5	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the chickens	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They are washed and brushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 washed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	aux:pass
3	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brushed	cc
5	brushed	brush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 washed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · passive		They					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	brush	participle							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are sent to farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 farms	case
5	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive		They		farms			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to farm=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are slaughtered for meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slaughtered	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slaughtered	aux:pass
3	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slaughtered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slaughter	present · passive		They				for meat	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

They are taught tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taught	aux:pass
3	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · passive		They					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient trick=Topic

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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