Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…
Neighbour gossip: "After the lottery win he totally lost the plot, bought six boats." What happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, Neighbour gossip · What happens: lose, buy, happen · To what, where: plot, six boats
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Neighbour gossip: "After the lottery win he totally lost the plot, bought six boats."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neighbour | neighbour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gossip | amod |
| 2 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bought | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bought | punct |
| 5 | After | after | ADP | _ | 8 win | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 win | det |
| 7 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 win | compound |
| 8 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bought | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 win | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plot | det |
| 13 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 win | punct |
| 15 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gossip | acl:relcl |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 boats | nummod |
| 17 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bought | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gossip | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gossip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | past | he | the plot | totally property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | participle | Neighbour gossip not said here | six boats | after the lottery win | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
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 happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He lost his piece of land
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 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 piece | nmod:poss |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | He | his piece of land | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality |
Option 2
He forgot the whole story of a film he watched
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 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 film | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 film | det |
| 8 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 film | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | He | the whole story of a film | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | he | a film not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He started behaving wildly and senselessly
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 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behaving | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 started | xcomp |
| 4 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 3 behaving | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 senselessly | cc |
| 6 | senselessly | senselessly | ADV | _ | 4 wildly | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | He | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | behave | gerund | He not said here | wildly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
He won a garden contest
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 won | nsubj |
| 2 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 contest | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contest | compound |
| 5 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | He | a garden contest | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality |
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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