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Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

An American book: "The homely girl at the dance had no partner." What does "homely" say here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American book · What happens: have, say · To what, where: partner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: An American book: "The homely girl at the dance had no partner."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 book	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 dance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dance	det
11	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 partner	det
14	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	a American book	no partner					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient

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 does "homely" say here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 homely	obl
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 homely	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 homely	punct
4	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 homely	parataxis
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 say	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 homely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive				here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She stayed at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was plain-looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looking	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 plain	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	She						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

She was the host

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 host	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 host	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 host	det
4	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	the host					tree rules

Option 4

She was cosy and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cosy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cosy	cop
3	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kind	cc
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cosy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					cosy property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

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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