Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

"aw it's fun-size, can i have 4 then" — what does the speaker know about the bar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, i · What happens: aw, be, have, do, know · To what, where: fun size, 4, speaker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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	_	2 aw	punct
2	aw	aw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 size	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	cop
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fun	punct
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aw	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 size	parataxis
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 have	obj
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 have	advmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 does	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 does	nsubj
17	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 aw	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 speaker	det
19	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 does	obj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 does	xcomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 bar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bar	det
23	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 does	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 aw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	aw in a quote	past					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	fun size			tree rules
3	have in a quote	can	i	4	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Patient
4	do	present		the speaker		about the bar	tree rules
5	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

It has a toy inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a toy				inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient

Option 2

It is extra big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 big	amod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					small property	tree rules

Option 4

It is a joke bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bar	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bar	compound
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke bar					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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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