Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
"eff off and leave my bike alone." What does the speaker want?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: eff off, leave, want · To what, where: bike
This is test 5 · ★ 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: "eff off and leave my bike alone."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 eff | punct |
| 2 | eff | eff | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 eff | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 eff | conj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bike | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 leave | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eff | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 eff | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eff off in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my bike | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=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.
Sentence 2: What does the speaker want?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | the speaker | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The other person to ride the bike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ride | mark |
| 5 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 person | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bike | det |
| 7 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | to-infinitive | the bike | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme |
Option 2
The bike to be fixed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fixed | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bike | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | to-infinitive · passive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The other person to go away now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 person | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | to-infinitive | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The bike to be switched off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 switched | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 switched | aux:pass |
| 5 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bike | acl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 switched | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch off | to-infinitive · passive | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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