Exam question 2 · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★

Given that "squiffy" denotes slight and "blotto" severe intoxication, determine the ordering that proceeds from least to most severe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ordering · What happens: give, denote, determine, proceed · To what, where: ordering, least

This is exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 denotes	mark
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 squiffy	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 squiffy	punct
4	squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Given	conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct
6	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 denotes	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 intoxication	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 blotto	punct
10	blotto	blotto	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 intoxication	amod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 blotto	punct
12	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 intoxication	amod
13	intoxication	intoxication	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denotes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 denotes	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ordering	det
17	ordering	ordering	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 proceeds	nsubj
19	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ordering	acl:relcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 least	case
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 proceeds	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 severe	case
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 severe	amod
24	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 least	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	denote	present				slight property	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
3	determine	infinitive		the ordering			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordering=Topic
4	proceed	present	the ordering		least		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

Blotto, squiffy, sober

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blotto	blotto	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
3	squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blotto	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sober	punct
5	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blotto	conj

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

Option 2

Sober, blotto, squiffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blotto	punct
3	blotto	blotto	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sober	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squiffy	punct
5	squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sober	conj

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

Option 3

Squiffy, sober, blotto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sober	punct
3	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squiffy	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blotto	punct
5	blotto	blotto	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squiffy	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sober, squiffy, blotto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squiffy	punct
3	squiffy	squiffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sober	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blotto	punct
5	blotto	blotto	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sober	conj

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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