Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…
A cartoon villain shouts "Go to the other place!" Where is he telling them to go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon villain, villain · What happens: shout, go, tell · To what, where: other place, them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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: A cartoon villain shouts "Go to the other place!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 villain | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 villain | compound |
| 3 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouts | nsubj |
| 4 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 6 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouts | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Go | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | a cartoon villain | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | the other place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_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: Where is he telling them to go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 telling | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 telling | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | villain | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | villain not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To another town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
To hell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 hell | case |
| 2 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
To the next room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the other team
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 team | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 team | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 team | amod |
| 4 | team | team | 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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