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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"Uncle Jim's been on the wagon a year — no, two years now." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Jim · What happens: be · To what, where: wagon

This is test 6 · ★ 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: "Uncle Jim's been on the wagon a year — no, two years now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wagon	punct
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jim	compound
3	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wagon	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jim	case
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 wagon	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wagon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wagon	det
8	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wagon	nmod:unmarked
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 years	punct
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 years	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 no	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wagon	obl:unmarked
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 years	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wagon	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wagon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	participle	Uncle Jim			the wagon	year		tree rules

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Uncle Jim started drinking two years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 started	xcomp
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drinking	obj
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 years	advmod

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

Option 2

Uncle Jim has not drunk alcohol for one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jim	compound
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drunk	advmod
5	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 alcohol	amod
6	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Uncle Jim	drunk alcohol			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient

Option 3

Uncle Jim has driven a wagon for a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 driven	nsubj
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wagon	det
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present · perfect	Uncle	a wagon			year		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent wagon=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Uncle Jim has not drunk alcohol for two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jim	compound
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drunk	advmod
5	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 alcohol	amod
6	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Uncle Jim	drunk alcohol			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=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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