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Test 3 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"Grandad hit his thumb with the hammer and turned the air blue." What happened next?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: hit, turn, happen · To what, where: thumb, air

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: "Grandad hit his thumb with the hammer and turned the air blue."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thumb	nmod:poss
5	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obj
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	past	Grandad	Grandad's thumb				with the hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient with hammer=Instrument
2	turn in a quote	past	Grandad not said here	the air				blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=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 happened next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 happened	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He painted the room

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 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	He	the room					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Destination

Option 2

He had a nosebleed

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nosebleed	det
4	nosebleed	nosebleed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a nosebleed					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosebleed=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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

Option 4

He went cold

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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