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Gossip: "Her new boyfriend? Lovely, but not the sharpest tool in the shed." What is said about him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: Gossip: "Her new boyfriend?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boyfriend	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 boyfriend	punct
4	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boyfriend	nmod:poss
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boyfriend	amod
6	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boyfriend	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Lovely, but not the sharpest tool in the shed."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tool	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tool	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tool	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tool	det
6	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 tool	amod
7	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lovely	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shed	det
10	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tool	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lovely	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Lovely	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What is said about him?

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	about	about	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is not kind

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 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	He					kind property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He is not very clever

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

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

Option 3

He has no tools

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tools	det
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no tools					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient

Option 4

He is a gardener

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 gardener	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gardener	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a gardener					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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