Test 5 · ★★ · Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side
★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a wait» (Gran). Which one makes things smaller?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus, one · What happens: not come, make · To what, where: things
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 52 «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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: ★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a wait» (Gran).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bus | det |
| 4 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 6 | NEVER | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 coming | advmod |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 ★ | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ruby | punct |
| 10 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ruby | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 brilliant | discourse |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jack | punct |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jack | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bit | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 bit | punct |
| 22 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wait | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wait | det |
| 25 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bit | nmod |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 bit | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Gran | punct |
| 28 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | parataxis |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Gran | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | present · progressive | the bus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Which one makes things smaller?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | which one | things | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Jack's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ruby's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Gran's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Gran | case |
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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