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Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"I called my teacher 'Mum' — just a slip of the tongue, but everyone laughed." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, everyone, tongue · What happens: call, laugh, slip, happen · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: "I called my teacher 'Mum' — just a slip of the tongue, but everyone laughed."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teacher	nmod:poss
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Mum	punct
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Mum	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 slip	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 slip	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 slip	det
12	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tongue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tongue	det
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slip	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past	I		my teacher			a slip of the tongue obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	laugh in a quote	past	everyone						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	slip in a quote		the tongue						nom slip «act intransitive»: of=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: 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

She bit her tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	She	her tongue					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

Option 2

She fell over in class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 class	case
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	She			class		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location

Option 3

She was rude on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She			purpose		rude property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She said the wrong word by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She	the wrong word				by mistake	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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