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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Gran: "Darn! I've burnt the pie." Why does she say "darn" and not a stronger word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, she · What happens: burnt, say · To what, where: pie, darn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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: Gran: "Darn!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Darn	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Darn	punct
4	Darn	darn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct

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

Sentence 2: I've burnt the pie."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pie	det
5	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burnt	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burnt	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 burnt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	present · perfect	I	the pie					tree rules

Sentence 3: Why does she say "darn" and not a stronger word?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 darn	punct
6	darn	darn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 darn	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 word	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 word	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 darn	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	she	darn and a stronger word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent darn=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because the pie was dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dark	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pie	det
3	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pie					dark property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a polite form of the curse "damn"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 form	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 form	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 form	det
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 curse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 curse	det
8	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 damn	punct
10	damn	damn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 curse	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 damn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a polite form				of the curse	tree rules

Option 3

Because "darn" means burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 means	mark
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 darn	punct
3	darn	darn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 darn	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	darn						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	burnt not said to happen	participle	darn not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Because she is mending a sock with a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 mending	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mending	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mending	aux
4	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sock	det
6	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mending	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 needle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 needle	det
9	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	present · progressive	she	a sock				with a needle	tree rules

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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