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Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

A boss about a new worker: "Not exactly a rocket scientist, but he works hard." What is said?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boss · What happens: work, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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: A boss about a new worker: "Not exactly a rocket scientist, but he works hard."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 works	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 worker	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 worker	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worker	amod
6	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boss	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 scientist	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 scientist	punct
9	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 scientist	advmod
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	13 scientist	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 scientist	det
12	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scientist	compound
13	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boss	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 works	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 works	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 works	nsubj
17	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 works	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 works	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work in a quote	present	a boss about a new worker and a rocket scientist					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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: What is said?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

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

The options

Option 1

He is clever and lazy

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	3 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lazy	cc
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					clever property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

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

He is not very clever but works hard

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	5 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 clever	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 works	cc
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	conj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	He					clever property	tree rules
2	work	present	He not said here					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He is a scientist who works hard

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	4 scientist	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scientist	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scientist	det
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 works	nsubj
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scientist	acl:relcl
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a scientist					tree rules
2	work	present	a scientist					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He builds rockets at weekends

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 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 builds	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 weekends	case
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 builds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	He	rockets			weekend		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Product

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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