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Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

Bro: "dad's going a bit thin on top lol, nearly a cue ball." What's happening to Dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: go, happen · To what, where: top, Dad

This is test 3 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: Bro: "dad's going a bit thin on top lol, nearly a cue ball."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Bro	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thin	obl:unmarked
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 going	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 going	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ball	punct
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 ball	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ball	det
16	cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ball	compound
17	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 ball	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 ball	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	dad			top		thin property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location

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's happening to Dad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happening	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happening	aux
3	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Dad	case
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happening	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive			Dad				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He fell on his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He			his head			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Option 2

He is getting thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 getting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	He					thin property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He plays snooker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plays	nsubj
2	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snooker	snooker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	He	snooker					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snooker=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is going bald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	He					bald property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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