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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"She drinks hair of the dog every Sunday, says it cures her head." What is she doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: She, hair, dog · What happens: drink, say, cure, do · To what, where: hair, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: "She drinks hair of the dog every Sunday, says it cures her head."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drinks	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drinks	nsubj
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 Sunday	det
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drinks	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cures	nsubj
13	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cures	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drinks	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	present	She	hair of the dog			sunday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	She not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cure in a quote	present	hair	dog's head					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer head=Source

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 she doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	dog						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Drinking alcohol to cure a hangover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cure	mark
4	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Drinking	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hangover	det
6	hangover	hangover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		alcohol					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient
2	cure	to-infinitive		a hangover					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer hangover=Source

Option 2

Taking a medicine from the vet for her headache

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 medicine	det
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 vet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vet	det
6	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 headache	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 headache	nmod:poss
9	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a medicine		the vet		for her headache	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme from vet=Source for headache=Asset

Option 3

Drinking herbal tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	herbal	herbal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tea	amod
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		herbal tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 4

Brushing her dog's fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fur	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund		her dog's fur					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=Theme

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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