Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★
Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear". Who drank too much?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: feel, drink · To what, where: much
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Gran | case |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feeling | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 wedding | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Grandad | punct |
| 11 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wedding | conj |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Grandad | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 peckish | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peckish | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | peckish | peckish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wedding | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 peckish | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 19 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ray | compound |
| 20 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 worse | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ray | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 peckish | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wear | case |
| 25 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worse | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | gerund | after the wedding and Grandad | delicate property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Who drank too much?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drank | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Gran and Uncle Ray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Ray | cc |
| 3 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ray | compound |
| 4 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gran | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only Grandad
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 |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only Uncle Ray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Ray | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ray | compound |
| 3 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
All three of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 three | nmod |
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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