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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

"My uncle caught a fish THIS big, he says. Classic tall tale." What does the speaker think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, speaker · What happens: catch, say, think · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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: "My uncle caught a fish THIS big, he says.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	THIS	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 big	nsubj
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caught	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch in a quote	past	My uncle	a fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: Classic tall tale."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classic	classic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tale	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tale	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does the speaker think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	the speaker						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The uncle tells true stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the uncle	true stories					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The uncle's story is invented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 uncle	case
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	present · passive		the uncle's story					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

The uncle caught a real big fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the uncle	a real big fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 4

The uncle is very tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the uncle					tall property	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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