Test 9 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
An Irish girl laughs, "Feck off, you're joking!" What does she mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Irish girl, you, girl · What happens: laugh off, joke, mean · To what, where: Feck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: An Irish girl laughs, "Feck off, you're joking!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Feck | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Feck | punct |
| 7 | Feck | feck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | obl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 laughs | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joking | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 joking | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 joking | aux |
| 12 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 laughs | parataxis |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 joking | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 joking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh off | present | a Irish girl | Feck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | joke speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 does she mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | girl | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She is surprised and doesn't believe it, in fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 believe | cc |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fun | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fun | case |
| 11 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not believe | present · do-support | She not said here | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
She wants the other girl to leave forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | She | the other girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other girl not said here | forever property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
She is asking for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asking | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asking | aux |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · progressive | She | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She is angry and wants a fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wants | cc |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | She not said here | a fight | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=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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