Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

Kid: "he's like 4 foot nothing, vertically challenged innit" — what is the kid saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kid · What happens: be, challenge, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saying	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nothing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
7	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 foot	nummod
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	compound
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Kid	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
11	vertically	vertically	ADV	_	12 challenged	advmod
12	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 innit	amod
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 saying	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kid	det
19	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saying	nsubj
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Kid	like nothing	tree rules
2	challenge in a quote	participle		vertically property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Kid		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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.

The options

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

The boy is short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The boy cannot climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 climb	advmod
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	the boy						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The boy is bad at maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 maths	case
6	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	obl

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

Option 4

The boy is very tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					tall 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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