Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs
Grandad: "Just a small nightcap and then bed." What will he have?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: have
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Grandad: "Just a small nightcap and then bed."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nightcap | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 nightcap | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nightcap | punct |
| 4 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 nightcap | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nightcap | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nightcap | amod |
| 7 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bed | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bed | advmod |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nightcap | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nightcap | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nightcap | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What will he have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | Grandad | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
A woolly hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hat | det |
| 2 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hat | amod |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An alcoholic drink before bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bedtime story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cup of cocoa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cocoa | case |
| 4 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | nmod |
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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