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Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

"Dad's had one too many, so Mum's driving us home." Why is Mum driving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Mum · What happens: have, drive · To what, where: one many, us

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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: "Dad's had one too many, so Mum's driving us home."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dad	case
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 many	nummod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 Mum	advmod
10	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:agent
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Mum	case
12	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 Mum	acl
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 driving	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 driving	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Mum	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	participle	Dad	one many					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	drive in a quote	gerund	Mum not said here	us				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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.

Sentence 2: Why is Mum driving?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 driving	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 driving	aux
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 driving	nsubj
4	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 driving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present · progressive	Mum						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dad is too tired after a long day at work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod

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

Option 2

Dad lost the car keys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 keys	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keys	compound
5	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Dad	the car keys					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dad has drunk too much alcohol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 alcohol	amod
6	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drunk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present · perfect · passive		Dad					tree rules

Option 4

Dad ate too much cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cake	amod
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Dad	much cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=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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