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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

"Uncle Rob was proper well-oiled at the wedding, fell in the cake." What was wrong with Uncle Rob?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: oil, fall, be · To what, where: Uncle Rob, wedding, cake

This is test 9 · ★ 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: "Uncle Rob was proper well-oiled at the wedding, fell in the cake."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Rob	punct
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rob	compound
3	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 oiled	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 oiled	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 oiled	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 oiled	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	oiled	oil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 wedding	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wedding	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oiled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 oiled	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cake	det
16	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 oiled	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 oiled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oil in a quote	past · passive		Uncle Rob		the wedding		properly, well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»
2	fall in a quote	past				the cake			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cake=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: What was wrong with Uncle Rob?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Rob	case
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Rob	compound
6	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						with Uncle Rob; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was tired from work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 work	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			work		tired property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		He					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He had slipped on oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	aux
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 oil	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past · perfect	He			oil			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He was a good dancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dancer	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dancer	amod
5	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a good dancer					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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