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title: Kid: "he's like 4 foot nothing, vertically challenged innit" — what… — Soft words for hard things: age and lo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kid: "he's like 4 foot nothing, vertically challenged innit" — what is the kid saying? Test 7 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

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Kid: "he's like 4 foot nothing, vertically challenged innit" — what is the kid saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kid · **What happens:** be, challenge, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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/9-age-looks-and-size/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t7:1
# text = Kid: "he's like 4 foot nothing, vertically challenged innit" — what is the kid saying?
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	vertically	vertically	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Kid |  |  |  |  | like nothing | tree rules |
| 2 | **challenge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | vertically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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The boy is short

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t7:o1:1
# text = The boy is short
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boy cannot climb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t7:o2:1
# text = The boy cannot climb
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **climb** | can | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The boy is bad at maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t7:o3:1
# text = The boy is bad at maths
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  | maths |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boy is very tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t7:o4:1
# text = The boy is very tall
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |

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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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