Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★
Mum: "I've asked you a hundred times! Your 2 mates are no Einsteins, they left 3 cups on the floor." How many cups must be picked up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, 2 mates, mates · What happens: ask, be, leave, pick up · To what, where: you, Einsteins, 3 cups, floor, many cups
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Mum: "I've asked you a hundred times!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Mum | appos |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | I | you | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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: Your 2 mates are no Einsteins, they left 3 cups on the floor."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mates | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 mates | nummod |
| 3 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Einsteins | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Einsteins | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 Einsteins | det |
| 6 | Einsteins | einstein | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Einsteins | acl:relcl |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cups | nummod |
| 11 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Einsteins | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Einsteins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your 2 mates | no Einsteins | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | mates = mate | 3 cups | the floor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cup=Theme on floor=Location |
Sentence 3: How many cups must be picked up?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cups | amod |
| 3 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 picked | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 picked | aux:pass |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 picked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | must · passive | many cups | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
103
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 103 | 103 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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