Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Why do phrases like "one card short of a full deck" mean someone is stupid?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrases, someone · What happens: mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 mean	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
3	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mean	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 card	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 card	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 card	nummod
7	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 phrases	nmod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 card	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 deck	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deck	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deck	amod
12	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 deck	punct
14	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 stupid	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stupid	cop
17	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mean	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	phrases like one card						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	someone					stupid 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.

The options

Option 1

Because stupid people lose cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 lose	mark
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	stupid people	cards					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Eventuality

Option 2

Because a full deck is very heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 heavy	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deck	det
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deck	amod
4	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heavy	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a full deck					heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They picture something missing, like a part of the mind

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 picture	nsubj
2	picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 picture	obj
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 part	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picture	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mind	det
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	present	They	something					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 4

Because people who play card games all day become stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	9 become	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 become	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 games	compound
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obl:unmarked
9	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	people	card games			day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	become	infinitive	people					stupid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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