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Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

A magazine: "The distinguished gentleman with silver hair." What does "distinguished" suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: suggest

This is test 13 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 magazine: "The distinguished gentleman with silver hair."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magazine	det
2	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 magazine	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 gentleman	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gentleman	det
6	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gentleman	amod
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 magazine	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gentleman	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gentleman	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 gentleman	punct

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

Sentence 2: What does "distinguished" suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 distinguished	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 distinguished	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 distinguished	punct
4	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 distinguished	punct
6	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 distinguished	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 distinguished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is very loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He is a soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soldier	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soldier	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

He is a famous scientist with many prizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scientist	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scientist	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scientist	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scientist	amod
5	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 prizes	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prizes	amod
8	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scientist	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a famous scientist				with many prizes	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He looks older in an elegant way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	He					in a elegant way; old property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=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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