Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

"dog's made a mess again, bloody hell, who left the door shut" — what has the dog done?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody hell · What happens: make, leave, do · To what, where: dog, door

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 done	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mess	det
6	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hell	punct
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hell	amod
10	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hell	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obj
16	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	xcomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	participle · passive		dog	again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mess=Product
2	leave in a quote	past	bloody hell	the door		shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	do	present · perfect					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Knocked over a vase of flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 vase	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vase	det
4	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knocked	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vase	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	participle				a vase of flowers			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over vase=Location

Option 2

Chewed a shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shoe	det
3	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	participle		a shoe					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gone to the toilet indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 toilet	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toilet	det
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gone	obl
5	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	1 Gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle				the toilet		indoors property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location

Option 4

Spilled its water bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bowl	nmod:poss
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	compound
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle		its water bowl					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bowl=Theme

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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