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Test 8 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

A mum, cheerful: "Oh fiddlesticks, I've forgotten the milk." How upset is she?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fiddlesticks, mum · What happens: forget, be · To what, where: milk

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: A mum, cheerful: "Oh fiddlesticks, I've forgotten the milk."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheerful	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheerful	punct
4	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 forgotten	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fiddlesticks	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 fiddlesticks	discourse
8	fiddlesticks	fiddlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 forgotten	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fiddlesticks	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 forgotten	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 forgotten	aux
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cheerful	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 milk	det
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgotten	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cheerful	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cheerful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present · perfect	fiddlesticks	the milk					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: How upset is she?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 upset	advmod
2	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 upset	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 upset	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mum					upset property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Furious and swearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 swearing	cc
3	swearing	swear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Furious	conj

#	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

Frightened and panicking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 panicking	cc
3	panicking	panic	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frightened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	panic	gerund							vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Very sad and crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 crying	cc
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only mildly annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 annoyed	advmod
2	mildly	mildly	ADV	_	3 annoyed	advmod
3	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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