Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…
"Oh for heaven's sake, Tom, how many times do I have to tell ya!" How does the speaker feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sake, speaker · What happens: have, tell, feel · To what, where: ya · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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: "Oh for heaven's sake, Tom, how many times do I have to tell ya!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 sake | discourse |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sake | case |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sake | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 heaven | case |
| 6 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tom | punct |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sake | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | ya | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · do-support | heaven's sake | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | heaven's sake not said here | ya | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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 does the speaker feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | the speaker | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Excited and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Excited | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sad and lonely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lonely | cc |
| 3 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sad | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Calm and kind
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 kind | cc |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Calm | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Fed up and annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Fed | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 annoyed | cc |
| 4 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed up | participle | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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