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Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

Sara reckons "plus-size" means clothes that are extra cheap. Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sara, clothes · What happens: reckon, mean, be · To what, where: plus size, clothes

This is test 12 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: Sara reckons "plus-size" means clothes that are extra cheap.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sara	Sara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 size	punct
4	plus	plus	ADJ	_	6 size	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 plus	punct
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 size	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	parataxis
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 means	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cheap	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cheap	cop
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cheap	amod
13	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clothes	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Sara	plus size					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent size=Attribute
2	mean	present		clothes					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic
3	is	present	clothes					cheap property	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 she right?

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 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it means large sizes

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	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sizes	amod
6	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obj

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

Option 2

Yes, they have extra pockets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pockets	amod
6	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	extra pockets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient

Option 3

No, it means small sizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	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	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sizes	amod
6	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obj

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

Option 4

Yes, they are cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cheap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheap	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheap	cop
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					cheap 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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