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Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

Sorry, I'm not firing on all cylinders today — up all night with the baby. What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, she · What happens: not fire, mean · To what, where: cylinders

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Sorry, I'm not firing on all cylinders today — up all night with the baby.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	6 firing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sorry	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 firing	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 firing	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 firing	advmod
6	firing	fire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 cylinders	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cylinders	det
9	cylinders	cylinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 firing	obl
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 firing	obl:unmarked
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	14 night	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 firing	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 baby	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 firing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fire	present · progressive	I			all cylinders	night; today		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on cylinder=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: What does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	she						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

She is too tired to think clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	csubj
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	6 think	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					tired property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive						clearly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Her car engine is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 engine	nmod:poss
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		Her car engine					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

She has stopped working at the factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	aux
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stopped	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 factory	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 factory	det
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect	She						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	She not said here					at the factory	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at factory=Theme

Option 4

She cannot go to the shooting range

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 range	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 range	det
7	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 range	compound
8	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	can	She			the shooting range			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to range=Initial_Location

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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