Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
Chatty: "omg Sarah's got a bun in the oven!!! due in June" What happens in June?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sarah · What happens: get, happen · To what, where: bun, oven
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 | Chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 4 | omg | omg | INTJ | _ | 5 Sarah | discourse |
| 5 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Chatty | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bun | det |
| 9 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 oven | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oven | det |
| 12 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bun | nmod |
| 13 | !!! | !!! | PUNCT | _ | 9 bun | punct |
| 14 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 happens | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 June | case |
| 16 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 due | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 happens | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happens | nsubj |
| 19 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 June | case |
| 21 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 happens | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chatty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · passive | Sarah | a bun | the oven | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bun=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | happen | present | june | 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
Sarah's baby is due to be born
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 baby | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sarah | case |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 due | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 due | cop |
| 5 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 born | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 due | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sarah's baby | due property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | Sarah's baby not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
Option 2
Sarah's oven is being fixed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oven | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sarah | case |
| 3 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fixed | aux:pass |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present · passive | Sarah's oven | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Sarah starts a baking course
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 course | det |
| 4 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 course | compound |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Sarah | a baking course | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Eventuality |
Option 4
Sarah's cake will be ready
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cake | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sarah | case |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Sarah's cake | ready property | tree rules |
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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