Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

"shut up, you're a sausage short of a barbie, it's Tuesday not Friday" What does the speaker think of the friend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, barbie, speaker · What happens: shut up, be, think · To what, where: sausage, Tuesday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sausage	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sausage	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sausage	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sausage	det
8	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sausage	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 barbie	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 barbie	det
12	barbie	barbie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Tuesday	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Tuesday	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Tuesday	cop
16	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 Friday	advmod
18	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tuesday	flat
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 think	obj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 speaker	det
23	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 think	nsubj
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 friend	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 friend	det
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 think	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	you	a sausage		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	barbie	Tuesday		tree rules
4	think speech: other	present · do-support	the speaker		of the friend	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The friend is being stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stupid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stupid	cop
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stupid	cop
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

The friend is a good cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the friend	a good cook					tree rules

Option 3

The friend forgot the barbecue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barbecue	det
5	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the friend	the barbecue					tree rules

Option 4

The friend is hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the friend					hungry property	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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