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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk." What did the boss have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gossip, boss · What happens: come back, fall, have · To what, where: liquid lunch, desk

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 lunch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lunch	det
10	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lunch	amod
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 desk	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 desk	nmod:poss
17	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	past	Gossip			a liquid lunch			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lunch=Initial_Location
2	fall in a quote	past	Gossip not said here			boss's desk		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at desk=Location

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 did the boss have?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 have	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boss	det
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the boss						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Alcohol at lunch instead of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 lunch	case
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alcohol	nmod
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 food	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alcohol	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Soup at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 lunch	case
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Soup	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A glass of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 milk	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A long swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 swim	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swim	amod
3	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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