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Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★

"Mam's tamping (well cross): my report says I'm a work in progress and not working to my full potential." Why is Mam cross?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tamping, I, my · What happens: say, be, not work, report · To what, where: work, progress, Mam cross · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: "Mam's tamping (well cross): my report says I'm a work in progress and not working to my full potential."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tamping	punct
2	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tamping	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mam	case
4	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct
6	well	well	INTJ	_	7 cross	discourse
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tamping	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 report	nmod:poss
11	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 work	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 work	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 work	det
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 progress	case
18	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 work	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 working	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 working	advmod
21	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 work	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 potential	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 potential	nmod:poss
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 potential	amod
25	potential	potential	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 working	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 work	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mam's tamping						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	I	a work		progress			tree rules
3	not work in a quote	gerund	I not said here					to my full potential	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	report in a quote		my						nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: Why is Mam cross?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cross	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	cop
3	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cross	compound
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Mam cross					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It says he has lost all his books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 books	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 books	nmod:poss
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	present · perfect	he	his books					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality

Option 2

It says he must move school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 move	aux
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	move	must	he	school					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not good yet, and lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lazy	cc
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	conj

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

Option 4

It says he is brilliant at everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brilliant	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brilliant	cop
5	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 brilliant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he			everything		brilliant property	tree rules

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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