Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness
"Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!" How does the speaker feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: stop, bang, drive, feel · To what, where: pan, me, twist
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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: "Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | banging | bang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Stop | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pan | det |
| 5 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 banging | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driving | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 driving | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 driving | aux |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Stop | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 driving | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 twist | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 twist | det |
| 13 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bang in a quote | gerund | you not said here | that pan | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | present · progressive | you | me | the twist | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme round twist=Trajectory |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Very annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 annoyed | advmod |
| 2 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Very happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 happy | advmod |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Lost and confused
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 confused | cc |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lost | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Dizzy and sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sick | cc |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Dizzy | 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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