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Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

A Brit says "What a homely kitchen!" Is this rude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brit, this · What happens: say, kitchen, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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: A Brit says "What a homely kitchen!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Brit	det
2	Brit	brit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kitchen	punct
5	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 kitchen	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
7	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kitchen	amod
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 kitchen	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kitchen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a Brit						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	kitchen in a quote								tree rules

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: Is this rude?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 rude	nsubj
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					rude property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it means dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	dirty					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirty=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, in Britain it means cosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Britain	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					in Britain; cosy property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in britain=Attribute

Option 3

No, it means very big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					big property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, it means ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					ugly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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