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A boy jokes: "I didn't fail, I achieved deferred success." What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: joke, not fail, achieve, defer, happen · To what, where: deferred success · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A boy jokes: "I didn't fail, I achieved deferred success."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jokes	nsubj
3	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fail	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fail	advmod
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 jokes	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 achieved	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 achieved	nsubj
12	achieved	achieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	ccomp
13	deferred	defer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 success	amod
14	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 achieved	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	a boy						tree rules
2	not fail in a quote	past · do-support	a boy = boy						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	achieve in a quote	past	a boy = boy	deferred success					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Eventuality
4	defer in a quote	participle							vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: 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: What really happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He got full marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marks	amod
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	full marks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He failed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	He						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He never took the test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 test	det
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past	He	the test					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme

Option 4

He passed the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	He				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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