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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again." What has Sam done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, Teacher · What happens: tell, report, do · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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: Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 report	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Teacher	case
3	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 telling	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 telling	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 telling	aux
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 report	conj
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 telling	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 homework	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 homework	nmod:poss
13	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	nmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	9 telling	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 report	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	Sam	stories			again	about Sam's homework	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about homework=Topic
2	report		Teacher						nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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: What has Sam done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 done	obj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	Sam						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Lied about his homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 homework	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 homework	nmod:poss
4	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past						about his homework	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about homework=Location

Option 2

Written great stories for homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stories	amod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 homework	case
5	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Forgotten his homework once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 homework	nmod:poss
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forgotten	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Forgotten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle		his homework				once property	tree rules

Option 4

Read books aloud in class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obj
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 class	case
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	books		class		aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

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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