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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

An Irish nan says: "That was during the Troubles, love." What time is she talking about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Irish nan, That, nan · What happens: say, be, talk about · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 26 «Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence» 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: An Irish nan says: "That was during the Troubles, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nan	det
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nan	amod
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
7	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 love	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 love	cop
9	during	during	ADP	_	13 love	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Troubles	det
11	Troubles	Trouble	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 love	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Irish nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	That				during love		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: What time is she talking about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talking	nsubj
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	5 talking	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk about	present · progressive	nan				time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The violent years in Northern Ireland, 1960s to 1998

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 1960s	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
5	Northern	Northern	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ireland	flat
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
8	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 1998	case
10	1998	1998	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 1960s	nmod

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

Option 2

The years of the potato famine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 famine	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 famine	det
5	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 famine	compound
6	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

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

Option 3

The time she had a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a cold			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 4

A week when the car broke down and the roof leaked badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 broke	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 broke	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roof	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl
11	leaked	leak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 roof	acl
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 leaked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	past	the car	the roof			week		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leak	participle		the roof not said here				badly property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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