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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp. Which children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: charity, underprivileged kids · What happens: say, help, go · To what, where: summer camp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 charity	det
2	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helps	nsubj
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	underprivileged	underprivileged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kids	amod
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 helps	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 camp	case
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 camp	compound
13	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a charity						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help	present	charity						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	underprivileged kids			summer camp			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location

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: Which children?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Children who are naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 naughty	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	cop
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Children	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children					naughty property	tree rules

Option 2

Children who are very clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Children	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children					clever property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Poor children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Children with no pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 pets	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 pets	det
4	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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