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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

A coach shouts, "Where's your head? You're out to lunch today!" What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: coach, You · What happens: shout, be, mean · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: A coach shouts, "Where's your head?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 head	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Where	punct
6	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 head	advmod
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 head	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a coach						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		your head					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: You're out to lunch today!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 out	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 out	cop
3	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 lunch	case
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 out	obl
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 out	obl:unmarked
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 out	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 out	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You				today	to lunch; out property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	coach						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

You missed lunch today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	You	lunch			today		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lunch=Stimulus

Option 2

You should eat more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	should	You	more					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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

You are not paying attention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 paying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paying	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 paying	advmod
4	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	present · progressive	You	attention					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

Option 4

You may go and eat now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eat	cc
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	may	You				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	You not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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