Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight
A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community." Who will live there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: live
This is test 11 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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 TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ad | det |
| 2 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ad | compound |
| 3 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pines | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pines | punct |
| 6 | Sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Pines | amod |
| 7 | Pines | Pine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 ad | nmod |
| 8 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 community | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 community | det |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 community | amod |
| 11 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 community | compound |
| 12 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ad | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 community | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 community | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Who will live there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | future | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Old people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Young families
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Holidaying workers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holidaying | holiday | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Holidaying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holiday | gerund | workers | tree rules |
Option 4
Students
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Students | student | 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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