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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

Gossip: "Old Mr Grey's lost his marbles, he talks to his roses now." What are they saying about Mr Grey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gossip, marbles · What happens: lose, talk, say · To what, where: Old Mr Grey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Old Mr Grey's lost his marbles, he talks to his roses now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talks	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Grey	amod
5	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Grey	compound
6	Grey	Grey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gossip	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 marbles	nmod:poss
10	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talks	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talks	nsubj
13	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 roses	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 roses	nmod:poss
16	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 talks	obl
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 talks	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 talks	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 talks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · passive		Old Mr Grey					tree rules
2	talk in a quote	present	Gossip				now	to Grey's roses	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to rose=Co-Agent

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 are they saying about Mr Grey?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saying	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 Grey	case
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Grey	compound
7	Grey	Grey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	marbles = marble					about Mr Grey	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

They think he has gone mad or confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 think	ccomp
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 confused	cc
8	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	present · perfect	he					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is a famous rose grower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grower	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grower	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grower	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grower	amod
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grower	compound
6	grower	grower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a famous rose grower					tree rules

Option 3

He has lost his roses from the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 roses	nmod:poss
5	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	He	his roses		the garden			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme from garden=Initial_Location

Option 4

He has lost a bag of glass marbles in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 marbles	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marbles	compound
8	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bag	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	He	a bag of glass marbles		the grass			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Eventuality

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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