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Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

TV host: "Tonight, a pop star who's — let's be honest — no spring chicken." What is the host saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pop star, 's, host · What happens: be, let, say · To what, where: 's · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: TV host: "Tonight, a pop star who's — let's be honest — no spring chicken."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 host	compound
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 host	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 host	punct
5	Tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 host	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 star	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 star	det
8	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	compound
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 host	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 's	nsubj
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 star	acl:relcl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 host	parataxis
14	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 honest	cop
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 let	xcomp
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 chicken	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 chicken	det
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chicken	compound
20	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 honest	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a pop star						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive		's					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	is in a quote	infinitive	's not said here					honest property	tree rules

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: What is the host saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 host	det
4	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the host						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pop star is not famous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 famous	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 famous	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 famous	advmod
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the pop star					famous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The pop star is not young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 young	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 young	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the pop star					young property	tree rules

Option 3

The pop star cannot dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dance	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dance	advmod
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dance	can	the pop star						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The pop star is a vegetarian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vegetarian	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vegetarian	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vegetarian	det
6	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pop star					vegetarian 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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