Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…
A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December." What will be lit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: press release · What happens: lit · To what, where: holiday tree, 1
This is test 9 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 release | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 press | compound |
| 3 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 release | compound |
| 4 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 lit | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 year | punct |
| 7 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lit | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lit | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lit | aux:pass |
| 14 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 release | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 1 | case |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 lit | obl |
| 17 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lit | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit in a quote | future · passive | a press release not said here | the holiday tree | 1 December | year | tree rules |
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 will be lit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 lit | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lit | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lit | aux:pass |
| 4 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | future · passive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A palm tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bonfire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bonfire | det |
| 2 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A Christmas tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tree for the summer holiday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 holiday | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 holiday | det |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holiday | compound |
| 6 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tree | nmod |
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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