Test 6 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"he dropped like 3 f-bombs in one sentence lol" What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: drop, do · To what, where: one sentence lol

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 bombs	case
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 bombs	nummod
6	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bombs	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 f	punct
8	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropped	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 lol	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 lol	nummod
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lol	compound
12	lol	lol	NOUN	_	3 dropped	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lol	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop in a quote	past	he			one sentence lol		like 3 f bombs	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in lol=Trajectory
2	do	past · do-support	he	one sentence lol					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He scored three goals

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 scored	nsubj
2	scored	score	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 goals	nummod
4	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	score	past	He	three goals					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme

Option 2

He threw three water bombs

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bombs	nummod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bombs	compound
5	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	three water bombs					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bomb=Theme

Option 3

He fell over three times

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said the f-word three times

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
4	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 f	punct
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	the f word			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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.

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