Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…
"We can't do the trip, money's a bit tight, sorry love." Why is there no trip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: We, money · What happens: not do, be · To what, where: trip
This is test 7 · ★ 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: "We can't do the trip, money's a bit tight, sorry love."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tight | punct |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tight | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tight | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tight | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sorry | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tight | punct |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | can | We | the trip | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | money | a bit obl:unmarked; tight 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: Why is there no trip?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 trip | det |
| 5 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | why property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Love is busy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Love | busy property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They do not have enough money
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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | They | enough money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
Option 3
The car is too small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the car | small property | tree rules |
Option 4
The trip is far too far away to drive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trip | det |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 away | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 away | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 away | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trip | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | the trip not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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