Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Identify the word for which the exclamation "crikey" constitutes a softened substitute.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, exclamation · What happens: identify, constitute, soften · To what, where: word, softened substitute

This is exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 constitutes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 exclamation	det
7	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 constitutes	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 crikey	punct
9	crikey	crikey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclamation	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 crikey	punct
11	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 word	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 substitute	det
13	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 substitute	amod
14	substitute	substitute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 constitutes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the word		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	constitute	present	the exclamation	a softened substitute	for the word	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme substitute=Pivot
3	soften	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Christ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Cricket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Crisis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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