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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

TV news: "The minister was heard muttering the f-word into a live microphone." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister · What happens: hear, mutter, happen · To what, where: minister, f word, live microphone

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 38 «Soft words for hard things: 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: TV news: "The minister was heard muttering the f-word into a live microphone."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 news	compound
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minister	det
6	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 news	acl:relcl
9	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 heard	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 word	det
11	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 f	punct
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muttering	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 microphone	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 microphone	det
16	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 microphone	amod
17	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muttering	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 news	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 news	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past · passive		the minister					tree rules
2	mutter speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the minister not said here	the f word		a live microphone			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic into microphone=Recipient

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He forgot a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He	a word					tree rules

Option 2

He spoke French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He	French					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He said the word "friend"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	the word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said a strong swear word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
5	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	a strong swear word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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