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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

"dang it, i dropped my phone, no wait, it's fine." What is "dang" here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, i · What happens: dang, drop, be · To what, where: it, phone

This is test 8 · ★ 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: "dang it, i dropped my phone, no wait, it's fine."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dang	punct
2	dang	dang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dang	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dang	advcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 phone	nmod:poss
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 wait	det
11	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phone	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fine	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fine	expl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	cop
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dang	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dang	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dang in a quote	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	drop in a quote	past	i	my phone and no wait					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	you not said here					fine property	tree rules

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: What is "dang" here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dang	obl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dang	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dang	punct
4	dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dang	punct
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dang	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				here		dang property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A mild curse word instead of "damn"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
2	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
3	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	compound
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 damn	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 damn	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 damn	punct
8	damn	damn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 damn	punct

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

Option 2

A name for the speaker's dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 dog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 speaker	det
5	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 speaker	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod

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

Option 3

A word for a phone ringing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 ringing	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ringing	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ringing	compound
6	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod

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

Option 4

A sound a phone makes when it breaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 breaks	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 breaks	nsubj
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a sound						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	break	present	phone						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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