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

Ben says: "'Teething problems' means a baby is getting teeth, so the new bus has babies on it?" Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, Teething problems, baby, new bus · What happens: say, teethe, mean, get, have, be · To what, where: teeth, babies, baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: Ben says: "'Teething problems' means a baby is getting teeth, so the new bus has babies on it?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 problems	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 problems	punct
6	Teething	teethe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 problems	amod
7	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 means	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 problems	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 getting	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 getting	aux
13	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	ccomp
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 getting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 has	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bus	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bus	amod
19	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
21	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Ben						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	teethe in a quote	gerund							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean in a quote	present	Teething problems						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get in a quote	present · progressive	a baby	teeth					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus
5	have in a quote	present	the new bus	babies		baby			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it means faults in something new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 faults	nmod
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	faults				in something	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fault=Theme in something=Attribute

Option 2

No, it means the bus is old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the bus					old property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the bus driver has toothache

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driver	compound
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the bus driver	toothache					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient

Option 4

Yes, babies are on the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 bus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bus	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bus	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	babies			the bus			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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