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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Grandpa: "That fellow's got bats in the belfry, he paints his car every Tuesday." What does Grandpa think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fellow, Grandpa · What happens: get, paint, think · To what, where: bats, belfry, car

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Grandpa: "That fellow's got bats in the belfry, he paints his car every Tuesday."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paints	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
4	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fellow	det
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Grandpa	appos
8	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 belfry	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 belfry	det
11	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grandpa	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paints	nsubj
14	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 car	nmod:poss
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paints	obj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Tuesday	det
18	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 paints	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 paints	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 paints	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	that fellow	bats		the belfry			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bat=Stimulus
2	paint in a quote	present	Grandpa	fellow's car			tuesday		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent car=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 Grandpa think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The man keeps bats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the man	bats					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme

Option 2

The man is a bell ringer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ringer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ringer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ringer	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ringer	compound
6	ringer	ringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the man	a bell ringer					tree rules

Option 3

The man is a good painter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 painter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 painter	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 painter	amod
6	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the man	a good painter					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The man is a bit mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl:unmarked
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the man					a bit obl:unmarked; mad 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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