Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

Mia reckons "eccentric" means the same as "dangerous". right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, eccentric · What happens: reckon, mean · To what, where: same

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 eccentric	punct
4	eccentric	eccentric	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 eccentric	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 dangerous	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dangerous	punct
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dangerous	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	eccentric	the same				as dangerous	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent same=Topic as dangerous=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it means odd in a harmless way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					in a harmless way; odd property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in way=Attribute

Option 2

No, it means very rich and famous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 rich	advmod
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 famous	cc
8	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rich	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					rich property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, eccentric people are criminals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 eccentric	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	eccentric	eccentric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 criminals	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 criminals	cop
6	criminals	criminal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	eccentric people	criminals					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is a polite word for dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dangerous	case
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a polite word				for dangerous	tree rules

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