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An Australian uncle: "That bloke who parked on the beach? Few kangaroos loose in the top paddock." What does he think of the man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloke, Few kangaroos · What happens: park, lose, think · To what, where: beach, top paddock

This is test 6 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: An Australian uncle: "That bloke who parked on the beach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bloke	det
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	appos
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 parked	nsubj
9	parked	park	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uncle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park in a quote	past	that bloke			the beach			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination

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: Few kangaroos loose in the top paddock."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kangaroos	amod
2	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loose	nsubj
3	loose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 paddock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paddock	det
6	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paddock	amod
7	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loose	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loose	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 loose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Few kangaroos			the top paddock			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in paddock=Eventuality

Sentence 3: What does he think of the man?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	bloke					of the man	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is a bit mad

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 mad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl:unmarked
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					a bit obl:unmarked; mad property	tree rules

Option 2

He is very brave

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 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

He is lost

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 lost	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		He					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

He is a farmer

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

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