Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
"Holy moly, you ate the whole cake??" What is the speaker feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Holy moly, speaker · What happens: eat, feel · To what, where: whole cake
This is test 7 · ★ 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: "Holy moly, you ate the whole cake??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 2 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moly | amod |
| 3 | moly | moly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moly | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ate | nsubj |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cake | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cake | amod |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | obj |
| 10 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | Holy moly | the whole cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
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 feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 feeling | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | the speaker | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Holiness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holiness | holiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ 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 3
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 4
Sleepiness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepiness | sleepiness | NOUN | 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.
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