Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
Shop sign: "Due to shrinkage, prices have been adjusted." What is the shop blaming for the price rise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shop · What happens: adjust, be, blame · To what, where: prices
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Shop sign: "Due to shrinkage, prices have been adjusted."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | compound |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Due | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Due | punct |
| 5 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sign | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shrinkage | case |
| 7 | shrinkage | shrinkage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Due | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 adjusted | punct |
| 9 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 adjusted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 adjusted | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 adjusted | aux:pass |
| 12 | adjusted | adjust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Due | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sign | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sign | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adjust in a quote | present · perfect · passive | prices | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: What is the shop blaming for the price rise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shop | det |
| 4 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | blaming | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shop | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 rise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rise | det |
| 8 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rise | compound |
| 9 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blaming | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the shop | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blame | gerund | the shop not said here | for the price rise | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for rise=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Customers getting thinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 getting | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | Customers | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
A cold winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 winter | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winter | amod |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Clothes shrinking in the wash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 2 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Clothes | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wash | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wash | det |
| 5 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | gerund | Clothes not said here | the wash | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Goods being stolen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stolen | aux:pass |
| 3 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | gerund · passive | Goods | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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