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Test 9 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice

Your mate gets upset when you say "nice drawing, NOT" as a joke. What's the wise move?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, wise move · What happens: get, say, be · To what, where: nice drawing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» of the language 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: Your mate gets upset when you say "nice drawing, NOT" as a joke.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drawing	amod
10	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
12	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 joke	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 joke	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Your mate					upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	you	nice drawing and a joke					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drawing=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.

Sentence 2: What's the wise move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Ignore him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry and say what you really meant kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 meant	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 meant	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean	past	you					kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tell him he can't take a joke and should toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 toughen	cc
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 toughen	aux
11	toughen	toughen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not take	can	he	a joke					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
3	toughen up	should	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Say it louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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