Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what has been omitted from the record.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: published report records · What happens: publish, delete, determine, omit · To what, where: expletive, record
This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 determine | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 records | det |
| 3 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 records | amod |
| 4 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 records | compound |
| 5 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 determine | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 expletive | punct |
| 7 | expletive | expletive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 determine | nsubj |
| 8 | deleted | delete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 expletive | acl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 deleted | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 determine | punct |
| 11 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 omitted | obj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 omitted | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 omitted | aux:pass |
| 15 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 determine | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 record | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 record | det |
| 18 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 omitted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | delete in a quote | participle | expletive not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | determine | infinitive | a published report records | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | omit | present · perfect · passive | a published report records not said here | from the record goal | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: what=Theme from record=Goal |
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 · ← Mova's choice
A grammatical error
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 error | det |
| 2 | grammatical | grammatical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 error | amod |
| 3 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A vulgar or profane word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 2 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 profane | cc |
| 4 | profane | profane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 vulgar | conj |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A confidential figure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 figure | det |
| 2 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 figure | amod |
| 3 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A personal name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | 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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