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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"Bit squiffy after two glasses of wine, are we?" teases a friend. What is she saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squiffy · What happens: be, tease, say · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: 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: "Bit squiffy after two glasses of wine, are we?" teases a friend.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
2	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squiffy	obl:unmarked
3	squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teases	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 glasses	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 glasses	nummod
6	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squiffy	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glasses	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 squiffy	cop
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 squiffy	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
14	teases	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teases	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 teases	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					after two glasses of wine	Bit obl:unmarked; squiffy property	tree rules
2	tease	present	squiffy	a friend					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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 is she saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saying	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	squiffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You are not drunk at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	aux:pass
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 · passive		You		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

You are very drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 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	You					drunk property	tree rules

Option 3

You are cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You are slightly drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 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	You					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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