Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the warning "contains strong language".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, meaning · What happens: identify, convey, contain · To what, where: meaning, strong language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meaning | det |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 accurately | advmod |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 conveyed | advmod |
| 6 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 meaning | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 warning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warning | det |
| 9 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conveyed | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 warning | punct |
| 11 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 language | amod |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 language | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | convey | participle | the meaning not said here | by the warning; accurately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | contain in a quote | present | the meaning | strong language | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot language=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The material includes swearing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 includes | nsubj |
| 3 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | swearing | swearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 includes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | the material | swearing | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swearing=Theme |
Option 2
The material is delivered at high volume
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delivered | aux:pass |
| 4 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 volume | case |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 volume | amod |
| 7 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | present · passive | the material | high volume | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
The material employs difficult vocabulary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 employs | nsubj |
| 3 | employs | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vocabulary | amod |
| 5 | vocabulary | vocabulary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 employs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | present | the material | difficult vocabulary | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vocabulary=Theme |
Option 4
The material is in a foreign tongue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tongue | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tongue | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tongue | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tongue | det |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tongue | amod |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the material | a foreign tongue | tree rules |
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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