Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight
Granny laughs: "I've got laughter lines — from 70 years of laughing at your grandad." What is she talking about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granny, I, 70 years · What happens: laugh, get, talk about · To what, where: laughter lines · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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: Granny laughs: "I've got laughter lines — from 70 years of laughing at your grandad."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 laughs | ccomp |
| 8 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lines | compound |
| 9 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 laughing | mark |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 years | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 grandad | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Granny | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | laughter lines | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | gerund | 70 years not said here | at your grandad | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 she talking about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 talking | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 talking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about | present · progressive | Granny | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
A comedy show
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 show | det |
| 2 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | compound |
| 3 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her wrinkles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wrinkles | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Her hair parting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parting | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parting | compound |
| 3 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | Her = she | nom parting «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Lines in a diary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 diary | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 diary | det |
| 4 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lines | nmod |
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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