Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…
"for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" How does the speaker feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speaker · What happens: cry out, close, flip, feel · To what, where: flipping door
This is test 5 · ★ 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: "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 crying | mark |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 crying | compound:prt |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 3 crying | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 7 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crying | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | flipping | flip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express in a quote | gerund | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | close in a quote | infinitive | the flipping door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||||
| 3 | flip in a quote | gerund | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | 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
Sad and crying
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 crying | cc |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Sad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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