Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…
"That sailor came back three sheets to the wind." How was the sailor?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailor · What happens: come back, be · To what, where: three sheets, wind
This is test 13 · ★ 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: "That sailor came back three sheets to the wind."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sailor | det |
| 3 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sheets | nummod |
| 7 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | past | that sailor | three sheets | the wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wind=Initial_Location |
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: How was the sailor?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailor | det |
| 4 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sailor | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Very drunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 drunk | advmod |
| 2 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Soaked by the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rain | det |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak | participle | by the rain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Carrying sails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Carrying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | sails | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme |
Option 4
Sleepy and cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cold | cc |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleepy | conj |
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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