Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"he says he misremembered the size of the fish lol, it was a goldfish" What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, size · What happens: say, misremember, be, happen · To what, where: size, goldfish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 misremembered	nsubj
5	misremembered	misremember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misremembered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nmod
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 goldfish	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goldfish	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 goldfish	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 goldfish	det
16	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misremembered	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happened	nsubj
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 happened	advmod
20	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 misremembered	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	misremember in a quote	past	he	the size of the fish	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	past	size	a goldfish	tree rules
4	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

He forgot what fish are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 forgot	ccomp
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He						tree rules
2	is a	present	fish						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He told a false story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He	a false story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 3

He remembered it exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	obj
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 remembered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	He	it				exactly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He caught a huge fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	He	a huge fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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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