Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…
A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!" Who is the cruise for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brochure · What happens: deserve, be · To what, where: it
This is test 9 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 brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 brochure | det |
| 2 | brochure | brochure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deserve | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 cruises | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cruises | punct |
| 5 | Luxury | luxury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cruises | amod |
| 6 | cruises | cruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brochure | appos |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 over-60s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 over-60s | det |
| 9 | over-60s | over-60 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 cruises | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserve | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 years | nmod:poss |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 deserve | nsubj |
| 14 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deserve | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserve | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserve | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve in a quote | present | a brochure | it | 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: Who is the cruise for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cruise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cruise | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cruise | det |
| 4 | cruise | cruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 cruise | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cruise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for the cruise | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Older, retired people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 people | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Older | punct |
| 3 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Families with babies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 babies | case |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Families | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
People who buy gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | People | gold | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 4
Young couples
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 couples | amod |
| 2 | couples | couple | 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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