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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

Gran, about the twins' drawing: "Well, it's very... colourful." Which word best fits what she is doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: drawing, twins, word · What happens: be, draw, fit, do

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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, about the twins' drawing: "Well, it's very... colourful."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 drawing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drawing	punct
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 drawing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 twins	det
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drawing	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 twins	case
7	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 drawing	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 colourful	punct
10	Well	well	INTJ	_	16 colourful	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Well	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 colourful	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 colourful	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	16 colourful	advmod
15	...	...	PUNCT	_	14 very	punct
16	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drawing	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 colourful	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 colourful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	drawing					colourful property	tree rules
2	draw		the twins						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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: Which word best fits what she is doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fits	nsubj
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 word	nmod
4	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fits	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	which word best						tree rules
2	do	present · progressive	word						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Being diplomatic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 diplomatic	cop
2	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						diplomatic property	tree rules

Option 2

Spinning a yarn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 yarn	det
3	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spinning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund		a yarn					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme

Option 3

Fudging the figures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fudging	fudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figures	det
3	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fudging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fudge	gerund		the figures					tree rules

Option 4

Pulling your leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		your leg					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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