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Test 7 · ★ · A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement

★ A cartoon teacher smiles calmly as foam covers the whole lab, saying «slightly less well than planned». What is the joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cartoon teacher, foam, joke · What happens: ★, smile, cover, say, plan, be · To what, where: whole lab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: ★ A cartoon teacher smiles calmly as foam covers the whole lab, saying «slightly less well than planned».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	compound
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smiles	nsubj
5	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	ccomp
6	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	5 smiles	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 covers	mark
8	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covers	nsubj
9	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smiles	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lab	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lab	amod
12	lab	lab	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covers	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 covers	advcl
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
16	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	17 less	advmod
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 saying	ccomp
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 planned	mark
20	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 well	advcl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	smile	present	a cartoon teacher					calmly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cover	present	foam	the whole lab					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lab=Destination
4	say speech: assert	gerund	foam not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	plan in a quote	participle	foam not said here						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He really thinks the experiment worked well

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 thinks	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 thinks	advmod
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 experiment	det
5	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 worked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	work	past	the experiment					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Teachers are not allowed to be angry in front of a class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 angry	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 allowed	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 class	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 class	det
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Teachers		front of a class			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here					angry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His calm small words don't match the big mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod:poss
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 match	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 match	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 match	advmod
7	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mess	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mess	amod
10	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 match	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not match	present · do-support	His calm small words	the big mess					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Patient
2	word		His = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He doesn't know what foam looks like

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	4 know	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 foam	det
6	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	7 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	present	what foam						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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