Test 1 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…
News: "The footballer has gone into treatment and asks for privacy." What has really happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: News · What happens: go, ask, happen · To what, where: treatment
This is test 1 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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: News: "The footballer has gone into treatment and asks for privacy."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 footballer | det |
| 5 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 treatment | case |
| 9 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asks | cc |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 privacy | case |
| 13 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · perfect | News | treatment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into treatment=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | News not said here | for privacy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: What has really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He is on holiday with his family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 holiday | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 holiday | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 holiday | case |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holiday | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | holiday | with his family | tree rules |
Option 2
He has started a new job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | aux |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 job | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 job | amod |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present · perfect | He | a new job | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He is getting help for an addiction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 addiction | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 addiction | det |
| 7 | addiction | addiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | He | help | for a addiction | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme for addiction=Source |
Option 4
He has hurt his leg badly in training on Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | aux |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leg | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | obj |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 training | case |
| 8 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 training | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · perfect | He | his leg | training on Saturday | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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