Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

Ben says "gosh" is a rude swear word and you'll get a detention for it. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, gosh, you · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: rude swear word, detention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gosh	punct
4	gosh	gosh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gosh	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 word	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
9	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	compound
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 detention	det
16	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
20	right	right	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ben			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	gosh	a rude swear word		tree rules
3	get	future	you	a detention	for detention; right property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent detention=Theme for it=Source

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

Yes, but only in the United States

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 States	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 States	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 States	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 States	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 States	det
7	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 States	amod
8	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a mild polite stand-in for "God"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 in	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 in	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 in	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 in	det
6	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 in	amod
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 in	amod
8	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct
10	in	in	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 God	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 God	punct
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 in	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a mild polite stand in				for God	tree rules

Option 3

No, it is a word for a kind of bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a word				for a kind of bird	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is the worst swear word there is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 word	amod
7	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the worst swear word					tree rules
2	be	present	the worst swear word not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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