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Test 10 · ★★ · Not unhappy and not half: litotes

★★★ Gran says «It's not exactly warm» in the sports hall, and later «It's not exactly cold» by the fire. Where is it colder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, It, hall · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: sports hall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Gran says «It's not exactly warm» in the sports hall, and later «It's not exactly cold» by the fire.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warm	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 warm	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 warm	advmod
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 warm	advmod
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hall	det
15	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hall	compound
16	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 warm	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cold	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cold	cc
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 cold	advmod
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 cold	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cold	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cold	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 cold	advmod
24	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 cold	advmod
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 cold	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cold	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	It			the sports hall		exactly, warm property	tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present	hall					by the fire; cold, exactly, late property	tree rules

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: Where is it colder?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Where	nsubj
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Where	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Neither is cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Neither					cold property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The sports hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hall	det
2	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hall	compound
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Both are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 same	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

By the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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