--- title: ★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement… · tree and pragmatics description: ★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a wait» (Gran). Which one makes things smaller? 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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a wait» (Gran). ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:1 # text = ★ «The bus is NEVER coming» (Ruby), «Oh brilliant» (Jack), «bit of a wait» (Gran). 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 NEVER never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 15 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:2 # text = Which one makes things smaller? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Jack's ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:o1:1 # text = Jack's 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Ruby's ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:o2:1 # text = Ruby's 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} None ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:o3:1 # text = None 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Gran's ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side:t5:o4:1 # text = Gran's 1 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 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. 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