Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

Which of these phrases is said kindly rather than as a mocking joke?

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

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 said	obl
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 phrases	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 phrases	det
4	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Which	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 joke	cc
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 joke	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
12	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 joke	compound
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive						kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Off his rocker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADP	_	3 rocker	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rocker	nmod:poss
3	rocker	rocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Away with the fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Away	away	ADV	_	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 fairies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Away	obl

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

Option 3

Nutty as a fruitcake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nutty	nutty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 fruitcake	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fruitcake	det
4	fruitcake	fruitcake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nutty	nmod

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

Option 4

Gone doolally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	doolally	doolally	ADV	_	1 Gone	advmod

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

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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