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Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"Mate, the barbecue went proper pear-shaped, sausages all burnt." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, sausages · What happens: go, shape, burnt, happen

This is test 3 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: "Mate, the barbecue went proper pear-shaped, sausages all burnt."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 barbecue	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barbecue	det
5	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mate	conj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shaped	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 pear	punct
10	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 proper	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burnt	punct
12	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burnt	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 burnt	advmod
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	Mate and the barbecue					proper property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shape in a quote	participle	Mate and the barbecue not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	burnt in a quote	present	sausages					all property	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.

Sentence 2: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The sausages were shaped like pears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausages	det
2	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shaped	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shaped	aux:pass
4	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 pears	case
6	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	past · passive		the sausages				like pears	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

They cooked pears

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 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cooked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	They	pears					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pear=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The barbecue went wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barbecue	det
2	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the barbecue					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The barbecue was a great success

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barbecue	det
2	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 success	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 success	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 success	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 success	amod
6	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the barbecue	a great success					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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