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Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

"The holiday was all booked, but fate had other plans — Dad broke his leg." What happened to the holiday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate, Dad · What happens: book, have, break, happen · To what, where: holiday, other plans, leg

This is test 13 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: "The holiday was all booked, but fate had other plans — Dad broke his leg."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 booked	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 holiday	det
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 booked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 booked	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 booked	advmod
6	booked	book	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 booked	conj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plans	amod
12	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
14	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	nsubj
15	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 booked	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 leg	nmod:poss
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 booked	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 booked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	book in a quote	past · passive		the holiday				all property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have in a quote	past	fate	other plans					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3	break in a quote	past	Dad	Dad's leg					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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.

Sentence 2: What happened to the holiday?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the holiday	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was moved to the seaside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moved	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	aux:pass
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seaside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seaside	det
6	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		It		the seaside			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to seaside=Trajectory

Option 2

It was paid for twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	3 paid	compound:prt
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay for	past · passive		It				twice property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 3

It was even better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It did not happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happen	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past · do-support	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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