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Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted." Whom do they want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mature actors, actors · What happens: want · To what, where: agency sign

This is test 11 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: An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
6	Mature	mature	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 actors	amod
7	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sign	acl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	past	Mature actors	a agency sign not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sign=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.

Sentence 2: Whom do they want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 want	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	actors = actor						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Very serious actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 serious	advmod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 actors	amod
3	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Well-behaved actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 behaved	discourse
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 actors	amod
4	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	participle							vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Older actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 actors	amod
2	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Star actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 actors	compound
2	actors	actor	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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