Test 12 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Which of these is a phrase for someone else's swearing, not a soft swear word itself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone · What happens: be, swear

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 phrase	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 phrase	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 phrase	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 phrase	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 phrase	det
6	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 swearing	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 swearing	nmod:poss
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod
10	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
11	swearing	swearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 phrase	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 word	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 word	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
16	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 word	compound
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 phrase	conj
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 word	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 phrase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a phrase and a soft swear word word; for someone's swearing	tree rules
2	swear		someone						nom swearing «communication intransitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some choice words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 words	det
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	compound
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Shucks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shucks	shucks	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Fiddlesticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fiddlesticks	fiddlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bother	bother	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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