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Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"Our school play was a total damp squib, half the audience left." How did the play go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school play, total damp squib, Our, play · What happens: be, leave, play, go · To what, where: total damp squib

This is test 4 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: "Our school play was a total damp squib, half the audience left."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 squib	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 play	nmod:poss
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	compound
4	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squib	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 squib	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 squib	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squib	amod
8	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squib	amod
9	squib	squib	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squib	punct
11	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	13 audience	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 audience	det
13	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Our school play	a total damp squib					tree rules
2	leave in a quote	past	a total damp squib						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play in a quote		Our						nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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: How did the play go?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was about fireworks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fireworks	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fireworks	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 fireworks	case
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					about fireworks	tree rules

Option 2

It was cancelled by rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cancelled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cancelled	aux:pass
3	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cancelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	past · passive	rain	It					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a disappointing failure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 failure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 failure	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 failure	det
4	disappointing	disappointing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 failure	amod
5	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a disappointing failure					tree rules

Option 4

It was a great success

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 success	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 success	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 success	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 success	amod
5	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	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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