Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs
"Lad was blotto by nine, sleeping on the stairs." How was the lad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lad · What happens: blotto, sleep, be · To what, where: Lad, stairs
This is test 12 · ★ 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: "Lad was blotto by nine, sleeping on the stairs."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blotto | punct |
| 2 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 blotto | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blotto | aux:pass |
| 4 | blotto | blotto | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 nine | case |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 blotto | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleeping | punct |
| 8 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 blotto | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stairs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stairs | det |
| 11 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sleeping | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blotto | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blotto | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blotto in a quote | past · passive | Lad | by nine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | gerund | the stairs | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 lad?
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 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | 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 lad | 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
Covered in ink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 ink | case |
| 3 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | in ink | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ink=Theme |
Option 3
Tired from football
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 football | case |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tired | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ill with the flu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ill | ill | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 flu | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flu | det |
| 4 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ill | obl |
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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