Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight
A letter: "Your grandmother has moved into assisted living." Where has she moved?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandmother · What happens: move, assist · To what, where: letter, assisted living
This is test 6 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 letter: "Your grandmother has moved into assisted living."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 moved | aux |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 letter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 living | case |
| 10 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 living | amod |
| 11 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move in a quote | present · perfect | Your grandmother | a letter not said here | assisted living | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent letter=Theme into living=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | assist in a quote | participle | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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: Where has she moved?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 moved | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · perfect | grandmother | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A shared flat with her old friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flat | det |
| 2 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flat | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friends | amod |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A care home where she gets help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 home | det |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 home | compound |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 gets | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 home | acl:relcl |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | she | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
Option 3
A holiday home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 home | det |
| 2 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 home | compound |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hospital for one night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hospital | det |
| 2 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 night | nummod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hospital | 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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