Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs
Press release: "The singer is receiving help for substance abuse." What is the singer's problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: singer, problem · What happens: receive, be · To what, where: help
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Press release: "The singer is receiving help for substance abuse."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 release | compound |
| 2 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 receiving | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 receiving | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 singer | det |
| 6 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receiving | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 receiving | aux |
| 8 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 release | acl |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receiving | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 abuse | case |
| 11 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abuse | compound |
| 12 | abuse | abuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receiving | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 release | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 release | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive in a quote | present · progressive | the singer | help | for substance abuse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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: What is the singer's problem?
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 singer | det |
| 4 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 problem | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 singer | case |
| 6 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the singer's problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A sore throat that stops her singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 throat | det |
| 2 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 throat | amod |
| 3 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stops | nsubj |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 throat | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 singing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a sore throat | her singing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality singing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing | her = she | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Too much work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 work | amod |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Addiction to drugs or alcohol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addiction | addiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 drugs | case |
| 3 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Addiction | nmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 alcohol | cc |
| 5 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drugs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Stage fright
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fright | compound |
| 2 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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