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Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

Nan says: "We'll see you at Christmas, the good Lord willing." What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, We · What happens: say, see, mean · To what, where: you, Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Nan says: "We'll see you at Christmas, the good Lord willing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Christmas	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Lord	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lord	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Lord	amod
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Christmas	conj
15	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Lord	amod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	future	We	you		Christmas and the good Lord			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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 does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Nan						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She will not come this year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	future	She				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She will come if nothing goes wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	nothing					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She will come only if she prays first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 prays	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 prays	nsubj
7	prays	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 prays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pray a condition, not said to happen	present	she					first property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

She will come with the vicar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 vicar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vicar	det
6	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	She					with the vicar	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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