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

"Mum, I made a boo-boo — the cat's food went in the fish tank." How big is the mistake meant to sound?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, food · What happens: make, go, be, mean, sound · To what, where: boo boo, fish tank, big mistake

This is test 10 of lesson 34 «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: "Mum, I made a boo-boo — the cat's food went in the fish tank."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boo	det
7	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boo	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 boo	punct
9	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 food	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 cat	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 tank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tank	det
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tank	compound
19	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	I	a boo boo				Mum vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boo=Product
2	go in a quote	past	the cat's food			the fish tank			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tank=Location

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: How big is the mistake meant to sound?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mistake	amod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mistake	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sound	mark
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meant	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the big mistake					tree rules
2	mean	participle		the big mistake not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Huge and dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dangerous	cc
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Huge	conj

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

Option 2

Not a mistake at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 mistake	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mistake	det
3	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 mistake	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Small and silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 silly	cc
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Small	conj

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

Option 4

Clever and planned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 planned	cc
3	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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