Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…
"ugh my bro is so not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he put the cat food in the fridge AND the milk in the cupboard." What does the speaker think of the brother?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, he, speaker · What happens: not be, put, think · To what, where: sharpest knife, drawer, cat food, fridge
This is test 2 · ★ 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: "ugh my bro is so not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he put the cat food in the fridge AND the milk in the cupboard."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 knife | punct |
| 2 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 10 knife | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bro | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knife | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 knife | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 knife | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knife | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 9 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 knife | amod |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 drawer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drawer | det |
| 13 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knife | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knife | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 food | det |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 food | compound |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fridge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fridge | det |
| 22 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 23 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 milk | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 milk | det |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fridge | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cupboard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cupboard | det |
| 28 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | my bro | the sharpest knife | the drawer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | past | he | the cat food | the fridge and the milk | in the cupboard | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in fridge=Destination |
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 does the speaker think of the brother?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | the speaker | of the brother | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
He is not very clever
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 | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 clever | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | He | clever property | tree rules |
Option 2
He is good at cooking
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 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 cooking | case |
| 5 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | cooking | good property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He keeps knives in the drawer
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 | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 drawer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drawer | det |
| 6 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | He | knives | the drawer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in drawer=Location |
Option 4
He is very tidy
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 | 4 tidy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tidy | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 tidy | advmod |
| 4 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | tidy property | 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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