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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

"is my brother off with the pixies again?? he's staring at the wall." What is the brother doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, brother · What happens: be, stare, do · To what, where: brother

This is test 11 · ★ 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: "is my brother off with the pixies again?? he's staring at the wall."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	9 again	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pixies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pixies	det
8	pixies	pixie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 off	nmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 brother	advmod
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	13 staring	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 staring	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 staring	aux
13	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 brother	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 staring	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		my brother			again		tree rules
2	stare in a quote	present · progressive	he					at the wall	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme

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 brother doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	the brother						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Playing with pixie toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 toys	case
3	pixie	pixie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toys	compound
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						with pixie toys	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with toy=Theme

Option 2

Looking for a lost pixie in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 pixie	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pixie	det
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pixie	amod
5	pixie	pixie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund				the garden		for a lost pixie	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for pixie=Theme in garden=Location
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Daydreaming and not paying attention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daydreaming	daydreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 paying	cc
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 paying	advmod
4	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Daydreaming	conj
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	gerund		attention					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

Option 4

Gone out with friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Gone	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 friends	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	participle						with friends	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent

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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