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

The robot fell over during the contest. "Back to the drawing board, team." What does the leader mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot, leader · What happens: fall over, mean

This is test 11 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: The robot fell over during the contest. "

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robot	det
2	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 contest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 contest	det
7	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	the robot				during the contest	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Back to the drawing board, team."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	5 board	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 board	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 board	det
4	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 board	compound
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 team	punct
7	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 board	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 board	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 board	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does the leader mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leader	det
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	the leader						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

We must draw the robot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robot	det
5	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

We must start again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	must	We				again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

The robot is perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robot	det
2	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perfect	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perfect	cop
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the robot					perfect property	tree rules

Option 4

We have won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 won	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 won	aux
3	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present · perfect	We						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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