Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". How does the boss feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frigging server, boss · What happens: be, feel
This is test 10 · ★ 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: A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 texts | det |
| 2 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 texts | compound |
| 3 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 AGAIN | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 AGAIN | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 server | det |
| 7 | frigging | frigging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 server | compound |
| 8 | server | server | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 AGAIN | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 AGAIN | cop |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 AGAIN | advmod |
| 11 | AGAIN | again | ADV | _ | 3 texts | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 AGAIN | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the frigging server | again, down 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: How does the boss 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 boss | det |
| 4 | boss | boss | 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 boss | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Very annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 annoyed | advmod |
| 2 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Glad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glad | glad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calm | calm | 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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