Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
"this freaking homework, no wait, it's actually fine, i'm just tired." What is the speaker's mood at the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this, i, mood · What happens: freak, be · To what, where: homework
This is test 11 · ★ 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: "this freaking homework, no wait, it's actually fine, i'm just tired."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 freaking | punct |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 freaking | nsubj |
| 3 | freaking | freak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fine | advcl |
| 4 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freaking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 wait | det |
| 7 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freaking | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 freaking | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | expl |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 11 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 14 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tired | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tired | cop |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 tired | advmod |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fine | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freak in a quote | gerund | this | homework | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | actually, fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | i | tired 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 the speaker's mood at the end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 speaker | case |
| 6 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mood | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the speaker's mood at the end | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Excited and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Excited | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Calmer, just tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Calmer | advcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Still very angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 angry | advmod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 angry | advmod |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Scared of homework
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 homework | case |
| 3 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scared | obl |
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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