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Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"Our team came a cropper in the final, lost 6–0. Not our finest hour, ha." How did the team do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: team · What happens: come, lose, do · To what, where: cropper, final, 6

This is test 10 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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: "Our team came a cropper in the final, lost 6–0.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 team	nmod:poss
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cropper	det
6	cropper	cropper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 final	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 final	det
9	final	final	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cropper	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 lost	obj
13	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14 0	case
14	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 6	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Our team	a cropper		the final			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cropper=Theme
2	lose in a quote	past	Our team not said here	6				– 0	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Eventuality

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: Not our finest hour, ha."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hour	advmod
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hour	nmod:poss
3	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hour	amod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ha	punct
6	ha	ha	INTJ	_	4 hour	discourse
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct

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

Sentence 3: How did the team do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 team	det
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the team						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They lost badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They					badly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They did not play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 play	advmod
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	past · do-support	They						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They won the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cup	det
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	They	the cup					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality

Option 4

They drew the match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 match	det
4	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	They	the match					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme

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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