Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Identify the oath from which the exclamation "blimey" is held to derive.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, hold, derive · To what, where: oath, exclamation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 38 «Soft words for hard things: 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 oath	det
3	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 held	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 exclamation	det
7	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	nsubj:pass
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 blimey	punct
9	blimey	blimey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclamation	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 blimey	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 held	aux:pass
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 oath	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 derive	mark
14	derive	derive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 held	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the oath		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
2	hold	present · passive		the exclamation	the oath	tree rules
3	derive	to-infinitive				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Blind man's buff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 man	amod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buff	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	buff	buff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

God blind me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 God	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 blind	obl

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

Option 3

Lime and lemon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lemon	cc
3	lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lime	conj

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

Option 4

Blame me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	me					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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