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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"He fell off the wagon after the funeral." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: He · What happens: fall off, happen · To what, where: wagon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: 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: "He fell off the wagon after the funeral."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 wagon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wagon	det
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 funeral	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 funeral	det
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off in a quote	past	He	the wagon			after the funeral		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wagon=Extent

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He lost his job

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 job	nmod:poss
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		his = he						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He started drinking again

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	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 drinking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	He						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drink	gerund	He not said here				again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He fell from a cart at the funeral

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 cart	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cart	det
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He			a cart		at the funeral	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location

Option 4

He lost his way

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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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