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title: "That sailor came back three sheets to the wind." How was the sailor? — Soft words for hard things: lying and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "That sailor came back three sheets to the wind." How was the sailor? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

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"That sailor came back three sheets to the wind." How was the sailor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sailor · **What happens:** come back, be · **To what, where:** three sheets, wind

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "That sailor came back three sheets to the wind."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:1
# text = "That sailor came back three sheets to the wind."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** *in a quote* | past | that sailor | three sheets |  | the wind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wind=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How was the sailor?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:2
# text = How was the sailor?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sailor |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Very drunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:o1:1
# text = Very drunk
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Soaked by the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:o2:1
# text = Soaked by the rain
1	Soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the rain | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Carrying sails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:o3:1
# text = Carrying sails
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund |  | sails |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleepy and cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:29-lying-and-drinking:t13:o4:1
# text = Sleepy and cold
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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**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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