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Test 1 · ★★ · Not unhappy and not half: litotes

«my mum said she's not unhappy with my report, so she's sad, right??» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, my · What happens: say, not be, be, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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: «my mum said she's not unhappy with my report, so she's sad, right??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 unhappy	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unhappy	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 unhappy	advmod
8	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 report	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 report	nmod:poss
11	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unhappy	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sad	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 sad	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sad	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sad	cop
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unhappy	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sad	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	16 sad	discourse
19	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	mum					with my report; unhappy property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	mum					sad property	tree rules
4	report in a quote		my						nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, «not» always means the opposite of good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 not	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 means	advmod
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 not	punct
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 opposite	det
9	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opposite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present		the opposite of good				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it means she hasn't read it yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 read	advmod
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	obj
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not read	present	she	it			yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, «not unhappy» means she's pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unhappy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 unhappy	advmod
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	ccomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pleased	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pleased	cop
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					pleased property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, «unhappy» is in it, so she's sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 unhappy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unhappy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sad	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 sad	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sad	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sad	cop
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unhappy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				it			tree rules
2	is	present	she					sad 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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