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Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police

Gossip: "Watch your purse round Dave, he's got sticky fingers." What is the warning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gossip, warning · What happens: watch, get, be · To what, where: purse, sticky fingers

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Watch your purse round Dave, he's got sticky fingers."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Watch	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Watch	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Watch	punct
4	Watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 purse	nmod:poss
6	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Watch	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 Dave	case
8	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Watch	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 Watch	advcl
13	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fingers	amod
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Watch	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	infinitive	Gossip	your purse				round Dave	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	get in a quote	present · passive	Gossip	sticky fingers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus

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 is the warning?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 warning	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the warning						tree rules

The options

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

Dave steals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 steals	compound
2	steals	steal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Dave is good at catching things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 catching	mark
5	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 good	advcl
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dave					good property	tree rules
2	catch	gerund	Dave not said here	things					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3

Dave is clumsy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clumsy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clumsy	cop
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Dave has been eating jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eating	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · progressive	Dave	jam					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=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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