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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

"Grandpa's a bit tipsy after one sherry, lol." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandpa · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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: "Grandpa's a bit tipsy after one sherry, lol."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tipsy	punct
2	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tipsy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tipsy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tipsy	obl:unmarked
6	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 sherry	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sherry	nummod
9	sherry	sherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tipsy	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 tipsy	discourse
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tipsy	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tipsy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Grandpa				after one sherry	a bit obl:unmarked; tipsy property	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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Grandpa is very drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 drunk	advmod
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Grandpa has not drunk at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drunk	advmod
4	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 drunk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	present · perfect · passive		Grandpa		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Grandpa is about to tip the waiter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tip	mark
5	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waiter	det
7	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandpa					about property	tree rules
2	tip	to-infinitive	Grandpa not said here	the waiter					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiter=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grandpa is slightly drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	cop
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 drunk	advmod
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandpa					drunk, slightly 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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