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Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

Nan to the kids: "I'm getting on, I can't climb that." Why can't Nan climb?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Nan · What happens: get on, not climb · To what, where: that

This is test 6 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: Nan to the kids: "I'm getting on, I can't climb that."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 climb	vocative
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 kids	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nan	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 getting	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nan	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 getting	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 climb	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 climb	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 climb	advmod
15	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 climb	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 climb	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get on in a quote	present · progressive	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not climb in a quote	can	I	that				Nan to the kids vocative	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=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: Why can't Nan climb?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 climb	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 climb	advmod
4	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climb	nsubj
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	Nan						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because she is busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 busy	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 busy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					busy property	tree rules

Option 2

Because she is getting on a bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 getting	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	she			a bus			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on bus=Source

Option 3

Because it is wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wet	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wet	cop
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wet property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Because she is old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 old	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					old 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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