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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

"that new kid's a bit dim, no wait, he's just shy." In the end what does the speaker think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, kid, speaker · What happens: be, think · To what, where: end

This is test 7 · ★ 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: "that new kid's a bit dim, no wait, he's just shy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dim	punct
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dim	nsubj
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dim	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dim	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dim	obl:unmarked
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 wait	det
11	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dim	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shy	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shy	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shy	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 shy	advmod
16	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dim	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dim	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that					a bit obl:unmarked; dim property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	kid					shy property	tree rules

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: In the end what does the speaker think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 think	obj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speaker	det
7	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	the speaker				in the end		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The boy is ill and pale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ill	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pale	cc
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					ill property	tree rules
2	be		the boy not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The boy is shy, not stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stupid	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stupid	advmod
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					shy property	tree rules
2	not be		the boy not said here						tree rules

Option 3

The boy is very bright and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loud	cc
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bright	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					bright property	tree rules
2	be		the boy not said here						tree rules

Option 4

The boy is stupid and shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stupid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stupid	cop
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shy	cc
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stupid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					stupid property	tree rules
2	be		the boy not said here						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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