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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork." What is the teacher really saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, teacher · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: woodwork

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: 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: School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 report	compound
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 practical	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 practical	punct
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 practical	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 practical	cop
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 practical	advmod
8	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 report	parataxis
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 academic	case
10	academic	academic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 practical	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shines	cc
12	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 practical	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 woodwork	case
14	woodwork	woodwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shines	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Tom					than academic; practical property	tree rules
2	shine in a quote	present	Tom not said here			woodwork			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in woodwork=Location

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 the teacher really saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 saying	advmod
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct

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

The options

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

Tom finds lessons hard but is good with his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 finds	obj
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finds	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 good	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finds	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Tom	lessons				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
2	is	present	Tom not said here					with Tom's hands; good property	tree rules

Option 2

Tom never comes to woodwork lessons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 lessons	case
5	woodwork	woodwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lessons	compound
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	present	Tom			woodwork lessons			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lesson=Initial_Location

Option 3

Tom is too practical to need any school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 practical	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 practical	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 practical	advmod
4	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 need	mark
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 practical	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 school	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tom					practical property	tree rules
2	need	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	any school					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot school=Theme

Option 4

Tom is the cleverest pupil in every subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pupil	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pupil	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pupil	amod
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 subject	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 subject	det
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pupil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tom	the cleverest pupil		every subject			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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