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Test 1 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

"printer won't work, helpdesk says user error. rude!!" What is the helpdesk saying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: printer, helpdesk · What happens: not work, say · To what, where: user error · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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: "printer won't work, helpdesk says user error. rude!!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
2	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	helpdesk	helpdesk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	parataxis
9	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 error	compound
10	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	advcl
13	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work in a quote	future	printer						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	helpdesk	user error					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent error=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 is the helpdesk saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the helpdesk						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

The helpdesk is at fault for the trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 helpdesk	det
2	helpdesk	helpdesk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 fault	case
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 trouble	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trouble	det
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the helpdesk			fault		for the trouble	tree rules

Option 2

The ink has run out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ink	det
2	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present · perfect · passive		the ink					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The person using it got it wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 person	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 using	obj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	the person not said here	person					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	get	past	the person	it				wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

The printer is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 printer	det
2	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the printer					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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