Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…
"what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!" How is the speaker feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: speaker · What happens: do, feel
This is test 9 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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
Sentence 1: "what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dickens | det |
| 4 | dickens | dicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 6 | u | u | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 11 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | to the kitchen | 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.
Sentence 2: How is the speaker feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feeling | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | the speaker | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Shocked and cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cross | cc |
| 3 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shocked | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Calm and pleased
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pleased | cc |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Calm | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sleepy and bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bored | cc |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleepy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Happy and proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 proud | cc |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Happy | conj |
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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