--- title: Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a fri… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics description: Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." What really happened? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: relations…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child… Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." What really happened? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Freddie, Teacher · **What happens:** make, push, note, happen · **To what, where:** bad choice, lunch, friend This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:1 # text = Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." 1 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Freddie | a bad choice | | lunch | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product | | 2 | **push** *in a quote* | past | Freddie *not said here* | a friend | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 3 | **note** | | Teacher | | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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 really happened? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:2 # text = What really happened? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Freddie chose the wrong friend ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:o1:1 # text = Freddie chose the wrong friend 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | past | Freddie | the wrong friend | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Freddie chose cold pasta ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:o2:1 # text = Freddie chose cold pasta 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | past | Freddie | cold pasta | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Freddie pushed someone and misbehaved ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:o3:1 # text = Freddie pushed someone and misbehaved 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 misbehaved misbehave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | Freddie | someone | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **misbehave** | participle | Freddie *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Freddie forgot his lunch ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t5:o4:1 # text = Freddie forgot his lunch 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | past | Freddie | Freddie's lunch | | | | | 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. 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