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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

Grandad: "In my day, an old horse that couldn't work went to the knacker's yard." What happened to such horses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old horse, Grandad · What happens: not work, go, happen

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Grandad: "In my day, an old horse that couldn't work went to the knacker's yard."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 day	nmod:poss
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 work	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 work	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 work	advmod
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 horse	acl:relcl
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 yard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knacker	det
18	knacker	knacker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 yard	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 knacker	case
20	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work in a quote	could	a old horse						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	past	Grandad				day	to the knacker's yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yard=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: What happened to such horses?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 horses	case
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were sold to a circus

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 sold	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 circus	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 circus	det
6	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl

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

Option 2

They were given a rest

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 given	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		They					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rest=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were slaughtered

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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slaughtered	aux:pass
3	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 4

They were fed better

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 fed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · passive		They				good property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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