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Test 5 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"ruddy cat's been at the bin again!" Is the speaker saying the cat is red?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ruddy cat, speaker · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bin, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: "ruddy cat's been at the bin again!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct
2	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bin	cop
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 bin	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bin	det
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 bin	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ruddy cat			the bin	again		tree rules

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: Is the speaker saying the cat is red?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 speaker	det
3	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 red	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 speaker	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the speaker not said here	the cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	is	present	the speaker					red property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, the cat's name is Ruddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 Ruddy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ruddy	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ruddy	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Ruddy	cop
8	Ruddy	Ruddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cat's name	Ruddy					tree rules
2	name		the cat						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, "ruddy" is a soft swear for "bloody"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ruddy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ruddy	punct
4	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swear	amod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ruddy	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swear	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swear	det
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swear	amod
9	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 bloody	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 bloody	punct
12	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swear	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a ruddy soft swear				for bloody	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the cat has ginger fur all over its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fur	compound
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 back	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the cat	ginger fur		cat's back			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient

Option 4

Yes, the cat has a red face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the cat	a red face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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