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"The new bridge fell short of what was promised." What does this say about the bridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new bridge, this · What happens: fall, promise, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: "The new bridge fell short of what was promised."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 short	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 promised	aux:pass
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 what	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	past	the new bridge					short property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise in a quote	past · passive							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»

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 does this say about the bridge?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	It					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It was too short to cross the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 short	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 short	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 short	advmod
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cross	mark
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 short	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					short property	tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive		the river					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 3

It was finished early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 finished	aux:pass
3	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 finished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		It				early property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was not as good as promised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 good	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 promised	mark
7	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 good	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It					good property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	participle							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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