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title: A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm". Her big sis… — Soft words for hard things: school rep… · tree and pragmatics
description: A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm". Her big sister rolls her eyes. Why? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

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A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm". Her big sister rolls her eyes. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little girl, hamster, big sister · **What happens:** say, go, live, roll · **To what, where:** farm, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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/17-school-and-pets/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:1
# text = A little girl says her hamster "went to live on a farm".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a little girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | girl's hamster |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | girl's hamster *not said here* |  |  | a farm |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Her big sister rolls her eyes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:2
# text = Her big sister rolls her eyes.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present | girl's big sister | girl's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:3
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hamsters hate farms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:o1:1
# text = Hamsters hate farms
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Hamsters | farms |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farm=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The hamster probably died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:o2:1
# text = The hamster probably died
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the hamster |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The farm is too far away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:o3:1
# text = The farm is too far away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the farm |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sister wanted the hamster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t4:o4:1
# text = The sister wanted the hamster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the sister | the hamster |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hamster=Theme |

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**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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