Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★

"lowkey sus, the ad says cosy, compact, needs TLC, and it's £900 a month lol" What is the flat really like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ad, month lol · What happens: say, need, be, like · To what, where: TLC · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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	_	3 sus	punct
2	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sus	compound
3	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sus	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ad	det
6	ad	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 compact	punct
10	compact	compact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cosy	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needs	punct
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
13	TLC	tlc	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needs	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 £	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 £	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 £	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 £	cop
18	£	£	SYM	_	7 says	obj
19	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 £	nummod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lol	det
21	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lol	compound
22	lol	lol	NOUN	_	18 £	appos
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 flat	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 flat	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 flat	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flat	det
27	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lol	conj
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 like	advmod
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 flat	xcomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the ad		cosy property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent £=Topic
2	need in a quote	present	the ad not said here	TLC		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tlc=Theme
3	is	present	a month lol		flat property	tree rules
4	like	infinitive	a month lol not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Cheap and perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 perfect	cc
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cheap	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Small and in need of repairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 need	cc
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 need	case
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Small	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 repairs	case
6	repairs	repair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need			repairs					nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Big and brand new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 new	cc
3	brand	brand	ADV	_	4 new	advmod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Big	conj

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

Option 4

Warm and very large

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 large	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Warm	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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