Test 2 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
TV guide: "Warning: contains strong language from the start." What should a parent expect?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Warning, parent · What happens: contain, expect · To what, where: strong language, start
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: TV guide: "Warning: contains strong language from the start."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guide | compound |
| 2 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Warning | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Warning | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Warning | punct |
| 5 | Warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 contains | punct |
| 7 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Warning | acl:relcl |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contains | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 start | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 start | det |
| 12 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contains | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Warning | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Warning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain in a quote | present | Warning not said here | strong language | the start | 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.
Sentence 2: What should a parent expect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 expect | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | should | a parent | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Swearing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swearing | swear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Long words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A foreign language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 language | det |
| 2 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 language | amod |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Shouting matches only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shouting | obj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Shouting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | matches | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t2/