Test 2 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

"Dad got let go today, mum's being weird about it" — what happened to Dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, mum · What happens: let, go, be, happen · To what, where: Dad

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 let	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux:pass
4	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weird	punct
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weird	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 weird	cop
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 weird	cop
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	parataxis
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weird	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 weird	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Dad	case
19	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 happened	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	past · passive		Dad				tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	Dad not said here			today		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	mum				about it; weird property	tree rules
4	happen	past			Dad			vn occur-48.3-1 «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 left a club

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 club	det
4	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	a club					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme

Option 2

He was let out of hospital

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 let	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 hospital	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hospital	case
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl

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

Option 3

He got a day off

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get off	past	He				day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He lost his job

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 job	nmod:poss
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		his = he						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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