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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"Had a pint of Dutch courage before his speech." Why did he drink?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: his, he · What happens: have, speak, drink · To what, where: pint · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: "Had a pint of Dutch courage before his speech."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct
2	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pint	det
4	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 courage	case
6	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 courage	amod
7	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pint	nmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 speech	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 speech	nmod:poss
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Had	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		a pint of Dutch courage			before his speech		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pint=Patient
2	speak in a quote		his = he						nom speech «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: Why did he drink?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 drink	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drink	nsubj
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · do-support	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Because he is Dutch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 Dutch	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Dutch	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Dutch	cop
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

To celebrate the speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 celebrate	mark
2	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speech	det
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebrate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	to-infinitive		the speech					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To feel brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feel	mark
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	to-infinitive						brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

To quench his thirst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 quench	mark
2	quench	quench	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 thirst	nmod:poss
4	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quench	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quench	to-infinitive		his thirst					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
2	thirst		his = he						nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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