Exam question 2 · Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the description «slightly well done», applied to toast which is black and emits smoke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: toast · What happens: follow, characteris, do, apply, be, emit · To what, where: description, smoke

This is exam question 2 of lesson 52 «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 description	det
10	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
12	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	14 done	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 done	advmod
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 description	acl:relcl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 applied	punct
17	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 description	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 toast	mark
19	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 applied	advcl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 black	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 black	cop
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 toast	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 emits	cc
24	emits	emit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 black	conj
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 emits	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the description	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	participle		the description not said here	slightly, well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	apply	participle		the description not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	toast		black property	tree rules
6	emit	present	toast not said here	smoke		vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source smoke=Theme

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.

The options

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

Understatement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Understatement	understatement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sarcasm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A literal description

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 description	det
2	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 description	amod
3	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hyperbole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyperbole	hyperbole	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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