Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…
"I spilled blue ink on my drawing and it looked like the sea — a happy accident!" How did the spill turn out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, ink, my, spill · What happens: spill, look, draw, turn out · To what, where: blue ink, drawing
This is test 3 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: "I spilled blue ink on my drawing and it looked like the sea — a happy accident!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spilled | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spilled | nsubj |
| 3 | spilled | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ink | amod |
| 5 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spilled | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 drawing | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drawing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spilled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spilled | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 accident | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 accident | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 accident | amod |
| 18 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spilled | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 accident | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 accident | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spill in a quote | past | I | blue ink | my drawing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ink=Theme | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | ink | like the sea | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | my | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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: How did the spill turn out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 turn | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spill | det |
| 4 | spill | spill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 turn | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past · do-support | the spill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nobody saw it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | 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 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Nobody | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
It was planned
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 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 planned | aux:pass |
| 3 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past · passive | It | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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