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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

Police: "The driver was over the limit." What did the driver do wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: driver · What happens: be, do · To what, where: limit

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Police: "The driver was over the limit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Police	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 limit	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 limit	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 limit	cop
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 limit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 limit	det
9	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Police	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 limit	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 limit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the driver			the limit			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: What did the driver do wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the driver						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Drove faster than the speed limit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drove	drove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Drove	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	6 limit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 limit	det
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 limit	compound
6	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drove	imperative	you not said here					fast property	tree rules

Option 2

Drove with too many people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drove	drove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 people	case
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drove	imperative	you not said here					with many people	tree rules

Option 3

Parked over a line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 line	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle				a line			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over line=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Drove with too much alcohol in his blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drove	drove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 alcohol	case
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 alcohol	amod
5	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drove	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 blood	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 blood	nmod:poss
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drove	imperative	you not said here			his blood		with much alcohol	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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