Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police
"Shut up about my brother. He's inside, all right? Three years." Where is the brother?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: He, brother · What happens: shut up, be
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 27 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» 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: "Shut up about my brother.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 2 | Shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Shut | compound:prt |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shut | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up in a quote | participle | about my brother | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: He's inside, all right?
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 inside | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inside | cop |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 inside | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 inside | fixed |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | inside property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Three years."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: Where is the brother?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brother | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In prison for three years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 prison | case |
| 2 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prison | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sitting indoors for three years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 1 Sitting | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | year | indoors property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
In hospital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 hospital | case |
| 2 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At a boarding school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 school | det |
| 3 | boarding | boarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 school | compound |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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