Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
Chatty: "ugh got a tummy bug, been up all night, not coming in" Why is the speaker staying home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ugh, speaker · What happens: get, be, not come in, stay · To what, where: tummy bug, night
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 4 | ugh | ugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chatty | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bug | det |
| 7 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bug | compound |
| 8 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 night | cop |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 been | compound:prt |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bug | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 coming | advmod |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 got | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 coming | advmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 staying | punct |
| 19 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 staying | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 staying | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 speaker | det |
| 22 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 staying | nsubj |
| 23 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 coming | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 staying | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chatty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | ugh | a tummy bug | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bug=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | all night | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not come in in a quote | gerund | ugh not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | present · progressive | the speaker | home property | vn exist-47.1 «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 have a stomach infection
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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 infection | det |
| 4 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 infection | compound |
| 5 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | They | a stomach infection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Patient |
Option 2
They ate too much dinner
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 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dinner | amod |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | They | much dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
Option 3
They have homework
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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | They | homework | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient |
Option 4
A bug bit them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 2 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | compound |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bit | obj |
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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