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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

A teacher writes: "Sam told a classmate to 'eff off' at lunch." What did Sam do wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Sam · What happens: write, tell, eff off, do · To what, where: classmate, lunch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A teacher writes: "Sam told a classmate to 'eff off' at lunch."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 writes	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 classmate	det
9	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 eff	case
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 eff	punct
12	eff	eff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 eff	compound:prt
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 eff	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 lunch	case
16	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eff	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a teacher						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Sam		a classmate				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient clause=Topic
3	eff off in a quote	infinitive				lunch			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 did Sam do wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Sam						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He took off his shoes at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoes	nmod:poss
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 lunch	case
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	He	his shoes		lunch			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He rudely told a classmate to go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 classmate	det
5	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		a classmate			rudely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He went home early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					early, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He switched off the lights in the dining hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 switched	nsubj
2	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 switched	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lights	det
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 switched	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
8	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	compound
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 switched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	past	He	the lights		the dining hall			vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient

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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