Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"sorry I said 7 × 8 is 54, total brain fart, it's 56" What was the mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, fart · What happens: say, be · To what, where: total brain fart, 7 54, 56, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 54	nummod
6	×	×	SYM	_	5 7	dep
7	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 7	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 54	cop
9	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fart	punct
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fart	amod
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fart	compound
13	fart	fart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 56	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 56	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 56	cop
17	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 said	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 mistake	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mistake	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mistake	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mistake	det
22	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 56	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	I	total brain fart	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		7 54	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	fart	56 and the mistake	tree rules
4	is a	past		the mistake	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

A silly moment of forgetting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 forgetting	case
5	forgetting	forgetting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	nmod

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

Option 2

A trick on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	nmod

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

Option 3

A brain illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 illness	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 illness	compound
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A rude joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 joke	amod
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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