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Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

A sports reporter: "At 38, the striker is clearly past his prime." What does the reporter think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sports reporter, reporter · What happens: be, think

This is test 5 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 sports reporter: "At 38, the striker is clearly past his prime."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 reporter	det
2	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reporter	compound
3	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prime	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 38	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 38	punct
6	At	at	ADP	_	7 38	case
7	38	38	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 reporter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reporter	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 striker	det
10	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prime	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 prime	cop
12	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	15 prime	advmod
13	past	past	ADP	_	15 prime	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 prime	nmod:poss
15	prime	prime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 prime	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 prime	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a sports reporter at 38					past reporter's prime; clearly 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: What does the reporter think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reporter	det
4	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	the reporter						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The striker has just started

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 striker	det
2	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 started	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
5	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present · perfect	the striker						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The striker is too young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 striker	det
2	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The striker is the best now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 striker	det
2	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 best	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the striker				now	good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The striker is no longer at his best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 striker	det
2	striker	striker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 best	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 best	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 best	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 best	nmod:poss
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the striker					good, long 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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