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Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"Oi, you dropped a right clanger telling Gran about her surprise party!" What did the person do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, right clanger, person · What happens: drop, tell, do · To what, where: right clanger, Gran · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: "Oi, you dropped a right clanger telling Gran about her surprise party!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct
2	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oi	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clanger	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clanger	amod
8	clanger	clanger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obj
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 clanger	acl
10	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 party	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 party	nmod:poss
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 party	compound
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop in a quote	past	you	a right clanger					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clanger=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	a right clanger not said here		Gran			about Gran's surprise party	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient about party=Topic

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 did the person do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the person						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Dropped a heavy pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pot	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		a heavy pot					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme

Option 2

Rang the doorbell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doorbell	det
3	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past		the doorbell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme

Option 3

Planned the party well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Planned	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Planned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past		the party				well property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic

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

Made an embarrassing mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
3	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mistake	amod
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		a embarrassing mistake					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

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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