Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…
Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!" What kind of lie is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, that · What happens: open, dislike, say, be · To what, where: gift, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | nsubj |
| 2 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gift | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dislikes | nsubj |
| 6 | dislikes | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 opens | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 opens | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 lovely | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lovely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Gran | a gift | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dislike | present | Gran | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Gran not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: What kind of lie is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lie | case |
| 4 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | what kind | of lie | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A tall tale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An inoperative statement
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 statement | det |
| 2 | inoperative | inoperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 statement | amod |
| 3 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A white lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lie | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lie | amod |
| 3 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Misappropriation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misappropriation | misappropriation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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