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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

News: "The striker missed an open goal and the commentator cried, 'Crikey!'" What did the commentator show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: News, commentator · What happens: miss, cry, show · To what, where: open goal, Crikey

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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: News: "The striker missed an open goal and the commentator cried, 'Crikey!'"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 missed	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 striker	det
5	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	nsubj
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 goal	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goal	amod
9	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 commentator	det
12	commentator	commentator	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Crikey	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Crikey	punct
16	Crikey	crikey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Crikey	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Crikey	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Crikey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss in a quote	past	News	a open goal					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goal=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	the commentator	Crikey					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crikey=Topic

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 did the commentator show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 show	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 commentator	det
4	commentator	commentator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past · do-support	the commentator						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That the goal was a good one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 goal	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goal	det
3	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that goal	a good one					tree rules

Option 2

That the striker is called Crikey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 striker	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 striker	det
3	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Crikey	Crikey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		that striker					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Surprise, with a soft word for Christ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surprise	appos
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Christ	case
8	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

That he wanted a cricket game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	That	a cricket game					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme

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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