Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" What does he feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie farmer, farmer · What happens: see, say, feel · To what, where: huge spider, Strewth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | Aussie | Aussie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 farmer | compound |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spider | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spider | amod |
| 7 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sees | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Strewth | punct |
| 11 | Strewth | Strewth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Strewth | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Strewth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a Aussie farmer | a huge spider | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spider=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a Aussie farmer not said here | Strewth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent strewth=Topic |
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 he feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 feel | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | farmer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hunger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Boredom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Surprise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Joy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/t6/