Test 1 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…
A sign at a Scottish station: "Gents ← and Ladies →". What is the sign for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign · What happens: be
This is test 1 of lesson 8 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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 sign at a Scottish station: "Gents ← and Ladies →".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 station | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 station | det |
| 5 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 station | amod |
| 6 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 ← | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gents | punct |
| 9 | Gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ← | compound |
| 10 | ← | ← | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sign | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Ladies | cc |
| 12 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ← | conj |
| 13 | → | → | SYM | _ | 10 ← | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ← | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sign | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is the sign for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 sign | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sign | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two shops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shops | nummod |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two train platforms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 platforms | nummod |
| 2 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 platforms | compound |
| 3 | platforms | platform | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The men's and women's waiting rooms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 women | cc |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 7 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rooms | compound |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The men's and women's toilets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 women | cc |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 7 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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