Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
Footy: "not our finest hour" after a 0–6 defeat, "a mixed bag" after a 2–2 draw, "a learning experience" after a 1–5 defeat. Which game was the worst loss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game · What happens: be · To what, where: worst loss
This is test 12 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Footy: "not our finest hour" after a 0–6 defeat, "a mixed bag" after a 2–2 draw, "a learning experience" after a 1–5 defeat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footy | footy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hour | advmod |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hour | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 hour | amod |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footy | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 defeat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 defeat | det |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 – | nummod |
| 12 | – | – | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 defeat | compound |
| 13 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 – | flat |
| 14 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bag | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bag | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 18 | mixed | mixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bag | amod |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footy | appos |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bag | punct |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 draw | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 draw | det |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 – | nummod |
| 24 | – | – | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 draw | compound |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 – | flat |
| 26 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footy | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 experience | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 experience | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 experience | det |
| 30 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 experience | compound |
| 31 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footy | conj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 experience | punct |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 defeat | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 defeat | det |
| 35 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 – | nummod |
| 36 | – | – | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 defeat | compound |
| 37 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 – | flat |
| 38 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 experience | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Footy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which game was the worst loss?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loss | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 loss | det |
| 5 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 loss | amod |
| 6 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 loss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | which game | the worst loss | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
All equally bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 3 bad | advmod |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The 2–2 draw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 draw | det |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 – | nummod |
| 3 | – | – | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 draw | compound |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 – | flat |
| 5 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The 0–6 defeat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 0 | det |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 4 6 | case |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 0 | nmod |
| 5 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 6 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 1–5 defeat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 defeat | det |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 defeat | nummod |
| 3 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 4 5 | case |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1 | nmod |
| 5 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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