Exam question 4 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Whereas a retailer in the United States classifies garments for boys as "husky", determine which of the following most accurately characterises the said classification.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: retailer, you · What happens: classify, determine, follow, characteris, say · To what, where: garments, said classification · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	8 classifies	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 retailer	det
3	retailer	retailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 classifies	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 States	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 States	det
6	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 States	amod
7	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 retailer	nmod
8	classifies	classify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 determine	advcl
9	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 classifies	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 boys	case
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 classifies	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 husky	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 husky	punct
14	husky	husky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 classifies	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 husky	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determine	punct
17	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 following	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 following	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 following	det
21	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 determine	ccomp
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 accurately	advmod
23	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	24 characterises	advmod
24	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 following	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 classification	det
26	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 classification	amod
27	classification	classification	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 characterises	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	classify	present	a retailer in the United States	garments	for boys; as husky	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent garment=Theme as husky=Attribute
2	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	characteris	present		the said classification	accurately property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A style for outdoor sport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 style	det
2	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 sport	case
4	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sport	amod
5	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 style	nmod

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

Option 2

A range for winter weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 range	det
2	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 weather	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	compound
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 range	nmod

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

Option 3

A collection featuring dog motifs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	featuring	feature	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 collection	acl
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 motifs	compound
5	motifs	motif	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 featuring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feature	gerund	a collection not said here	dog motifs					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A size for large or heavy boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 size	det
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 boys	case
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boys	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 heavy	cc
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 size	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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