Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

"Uncle Dave is so careful with money he reuses tea bags lol" — what is Uncle Dave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Dave, Dave · What happens: be, reuse · To what, where: tea bags, Uncle Dave

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dave	compound
3	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 careful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 careful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 careful	advmod
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reuses	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 careful	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reuses	nsubj
10	reuses	reuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bags	compound
12	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reuses	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 reuses	discourse
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lol	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 Dave	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 Dave	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Dave	cop
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Dave	compound
19	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reuses	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 reuses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Uncle Dave		with money; careful property	tree rules
2	reuse in a quote	present	Dave	tea bags		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Asset
3	is a	present		Uncle Dave		tree rules

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

Generous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Clumsy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Very rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 rich	advmod
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stingy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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