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Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

A mean joke: "With that mug he's got a face for radio." What is the joke saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, joke · What happens: get, say · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 mean joke: "With that mug he's got a face for radio."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 joke	amod
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
6	With	with	ADP	_	8 mug	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mug	det
8	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 joke	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 radio	case
15	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	he	a face				with that mug; for radio	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent face=Theme for radio=Source

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 is the joke saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the joke						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He drinks a lot of tea

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 drinks	nsubj
2	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tea	case
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	He	a lot of tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 2

He should be a singer

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 singer	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 singer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 singer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

He talks a lot

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 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	He	a lot					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is ugly

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	3 ugly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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