Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Little brother says "shoot" is a swear and he's telling Mum. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little brother, shoot, brother · What happens: say, be, tell · To what, where: swear, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
5	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swear	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swear	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swear	det
9	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 telling	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 telling	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 telling	aux
13	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	conj
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 telling	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 telling	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	13 telling	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Little brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	shoot	a swear		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	brother		Mum	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=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.

The options

Option 1

No, it means "well done"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 done	advmod
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen, in a quote	participle						well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is the worst word in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the worst word		English			tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is about guns so it is banned at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 guns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 guns	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guns	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 guns	case
6	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 banned	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 banned	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 banned	aux:pass
10	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 guns	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about guns	tree rules
2	ban	present · passive	guns not said here	it		school			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a mild stand-in, not a real swear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 in	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 in	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 in	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 in	det
6	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 in	amod
7	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
9	in	in	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swear	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 swear	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 swear	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swear	amod
14	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a mild stand in and a real swear					tree rules

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