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Test 1 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Newspaper: "The manager's post-match comments cannot be printed in a family newspaper." What does this suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Newspaper, manager, this · What happens: not print, comment, suggest · To what, where: post-match comments, family newspaper

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 39 «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: Newspaper: "The manager's post-match comments cannot be printed in a family newspaper."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 printed	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 printed	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 manager	det
5	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comments	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 manager	case
7	post-match	post-match	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comments	compound
8	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 printed	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 printed	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 printed	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 printed	aux:pass
12	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Newspaper	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 newspaper	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 newspaper	det
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 newspaper	compound
16	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 printed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Newspaper	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Newspaper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not print in a quote	can · passive	Newspaper not said here	the manager's post-match comments		a family newspaper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in newspaper=Destination
2	comment in a quote		the manager						nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 this suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	this						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He spoke French

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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He	French					tree rules

Option 2

He praised the players

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 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 players	det
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 praised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	He	the players					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme

Option 3

He said nothing at all

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He swore a lot

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 swore	nsubj
2	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swore	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	He	a lot					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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