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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"Bloody hell, he's legless — get him a taxi." What is wrong with him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bloody hell · What happens: be, get · To what, where: taxi, him

This is test 3 · ★ 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: "Bloody hell, he's legless — get him a taxi."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
2	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legless	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legless	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 legless	cop
7	legless	legless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 legless	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 taxi	det
12	taxi	taxi	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 legless	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 legless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Bloody hell					legless property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	infinitive		a taxi	him = he				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary taxi=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with him = he; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has hurt both his legs playing football

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 hurt	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 legs	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	obj
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hurt	advcl
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · perfect	He	his legs					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
2	play	gerund	He not said here	football					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

Option 2

He is too lazy to walk

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	4 lazy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					lazy property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He has lost his shoes

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 lost	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoes	nmod:poss
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	He	his shoes					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is so drunk he cannot stand

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	4 drunk	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 drunk	advmod
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stand	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stand	advmod
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drunk	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					drunk property	tree rules
2	not stand	can	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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