Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Which of these is NOT about being stupid or mad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be, be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stupid	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Which	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stupid	cop
5	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stupid	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 stupid	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stupid	cop
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 mad	cc
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stupid	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present						stupid property	tree rules
2	be								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 · ← Mova's choice

Two bricks shy of a load

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bricks	nummod
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shy	compound
3	shy	shy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 load	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 load	det
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shy	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The elevator doesn't go to the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elevator	det
2	elevator	elevator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present · do-support	the elevator			the top			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Jeepers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jeepers	jeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

One card short of a full deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 card	nummod
2	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 card	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 deck	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deck	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deck	amod
7	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 short	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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