Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

help desk note: "fixed it, ID10T error lol". what happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: help, fix, happen · To what, where: desk note, note · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 note	compound
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 help	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 fixed	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fixed	punct
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 help	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fixed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 error	punct
9	ID10T	ID10T	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 error	compound
10	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixed	obj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 error	discourse
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 error	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 help	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 help	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	desk note	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent note=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	fix in a quote	past		note	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary error=Product
3	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

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

The user made a silly mistake himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 user	det
2	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mistake	det
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the user	a silly mistake				user obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

Option 2

The computer had a dangerous virus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 computer	det
2	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virus	det
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 virus	amod
6	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the computer	a dangerous virus					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Patient

Option 3

The help desk broke the computer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 desk	det
2	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desk	compound
3	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 computer	det
6	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the help desk	the computer					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer computer=Patient

Option 4

A cable numbered ten was missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cable	det
2	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missing	nsubj
3	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cable	acl
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 numbered	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	cop
6	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	number	participle	a cable not said here	ten					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme
2	is	past	a cable					missing property	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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