Exam question 4 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

Ascertain the meaning of "worse for wear" when it is applied to a person on the morning following a celebration.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, apply, follow · To what, where: meaning, celebration

This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 worse	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 worse	punct
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 meaning	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 wear	case
8	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 worse	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 applied	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 applied	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 applied	aux:pass
13	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 person	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 applied	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 morning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	nmod
20	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 applied	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 celebration	det
22	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 following	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	apply	present · passive		meaning	to a person on the morning	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	follow	gerund		a celebration		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celebration=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Possessed of a torn coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 coat	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
4	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coat	amod
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Possessed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	participle							vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Attired in worn garments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garments	case
3	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garments	amod
4	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Attired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attire	participle						in worn garments	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in garment=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Drunk or badly hungover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drunk	Drunk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 badly	cc
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Drunk	conj
4	hungover	hungover	PROPN	_	1 Drunk	list

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fatigued from dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 dancing	case
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fatigued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fatigue	participle				dancing			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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