Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

"we tied one on last nite lol head is killing me" What happened last night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, last nite lol head · What happens: tie, kill, happen · To what, where: one, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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 tied	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tied	obj
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 killing	mark
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
7	nite	nite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	compound
8	lol	lol	NOUN	_	9 head	compound
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 killing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 killing	aux
11	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tied	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 killing	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killing	parataxis
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happened	obl:unmarked
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tie in a quote	past	we	one		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	kill in a quote	present · progressive	last nite lol head	me		tree rules
3	happen	past			night	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They got drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					drunk property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They tied up a parcel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 tied	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parcel	det
5	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past	They	a parcel					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Patient

Option 3

They went sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sail	gerund	They not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They wore fancy ties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ties	amod
4	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	They	fancy ties					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tie=Source

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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