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Test 10 · ★ · A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement

★★★ Same snowy morning. Gran: «bit nippy». The thermometer: minus 6. Your cousin: «it's like minus a million». Which tells you how cold it really is, and what has Gran done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, Gran · What happens: be, tell, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 49 «A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement» 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: ★★★ Same snowy morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
5	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

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

Sentence 2: Gran: «bit nippy».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 nippy	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 nippy	punct
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nippy	obl:unmarked
5	nippy	nippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gran	appos
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 nippy	punct
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct

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

Sentence 3: The thermometer: minus 6.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thermometer	det
2	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 6	punct
4	minus	minus	ADP	_	5 6	case
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 thermometer	appos
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 6	punct

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

Sentence 4: Your cousin: «it's like minus a million».

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 million	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 million	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 million	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 million	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 million	case
8	minus	minus	CCONJ	_	10 million	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 million	det
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cousin	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 million	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	cousin					like a million	tree rules

Sentence 5: Which tells you how cold it really is, and what has Gran done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tells	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 done	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
13	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 tells	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present			you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present	cousin					cold property	tree rules
3	do	present · perfect	Gran						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

The thermometer; Gran played it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thermometer	det
2	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 thermometer	punct
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 played	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play down	past	the thermometer	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Your cousin; Gran exaggerated

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exaggerated	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	appos
5	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	past	Your cousin						tree rules

Option 3

All three; nobody played anything down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 played	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 played	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 played	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play down	past	all three	anything					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 4

Gran's words; the thermometer is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gran	case
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrong	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thermometer	det
6	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gran's words					wrong property	tree rules
2	word		Gran						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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