Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…
"wobbly pops for the grown-ups, juice for the kids" — what will the grown-ups drink?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups · What happens: grow, drink · To what, where: wobbly pops
This is test 11 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pops | punct |
| 2 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pops | amod |
| 3 | pops | pop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ups | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ups | det |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ups | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 8 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pops | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 juice | punct |
| 10 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ups | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 kids | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kids | det |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 juice | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 juice | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 drink | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 drink | obj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 drink | aux |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ups | det |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ups | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 21 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drink | nsubj |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pops | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | drink | future | the grown ups | wobbly pops for the grown ups | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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.
The options
Option 1
Fizzy water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ice lollies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lollies | compound |
| 2 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Wobbly jelly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jelly | amod |
| 2 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Alcoholic drinks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drinks | amod |
| 2 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/t11/