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Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

Nan: "Where did I put my glasses? Senior moment!" — they are on her head. What is Nan joking about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nan, glasses · What happens: put, be, joke · To what, where: glasses, head

This is test 4 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: Nan: "Where did I put my glasses?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj:outer
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
4	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 put	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 glasses	nmod:poss
9	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	past · do-support	Nan	my glasses					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent glass=Goal

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: Senior moment!" — they are on her head.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moment	amod
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 moment	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 moment	punct
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 head	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 head	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 head	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moment	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	glasses = glass			Nan's head			tree rules

Sentence 3: What is Nan joking about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 joking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joking	aux
3	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 joking	nsubj
4	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 joking	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 joking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	Nan					about property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her forgetfulness at her age

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 forgetfulness	nmod:poss
2	forgetfulness	forgetfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgetfulness	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Being the oldest person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 person	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		the oldest person					tree rules

Option 3

A special moment at a party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 party	det
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Her new glasses

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 glasses	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glasses	amod
3	glasses	glass	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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