Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★

"bruv my nan says grandad's brown bread and the dog's been seen to. who's dead then"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: bruv, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nan	nmod:poss
4	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bread	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 grandad	case
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bread	amod
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seen	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	nsubj:pass
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dog	case
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 says	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 seen	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dead	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 dead	advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan	bruv			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bread=Topic
2	see in a quote	participle · passive		the dog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present			then	dead property	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

Only the dog; Grandad is eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dog	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eating	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eating	aux
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · progressive	Grandad	the dog					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nobody; they are both just poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 both	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 both	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 both	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	1 Nobody	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 poorly	advmod
7	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	5 both	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					both, poorly property	tree rules

Option 3

Grandad and the dog are both dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dog	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandad and the dog					both, dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only Grandad; the dog was neutered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Grandad	advmod
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 neutered	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 neutered	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 neutered	aux:pass
7	neutered	neuter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Grandad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neuter	past · passive	Grandad not said here	the dog					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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