Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

"Can't come to the cinema, I'm proper hard up mate" — why can't he come?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, he · What happens: not come, be · To what, where: cinema

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cinema	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cinema	det
7	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hard	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hard	cop
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 come	advmod
13	up	up	ADP	_	14 mate	case
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hard	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 come	advmod
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not come in a quote	can		the cinema		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cinema=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	I		up mate; hard, properly property	tree rules
3	not come	can	he			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He is grounded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grounded	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grounded	aux:pass
3	grounded	ground	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ground	present · passive		He					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination

Option 3

He is too tall for the seats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tall	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 seats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seats	det
7	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					for the seats; tall property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He has no money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

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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