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Test 10 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

A politician answers his rival: "I hear what the honourable member is saying..." What will he most likely do next?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: politician, honourable member, member · What happens: answer, hear, say, do · To what, where: rival · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «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 politician answers his rival: "I hear what the honourable member is saying..."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 politician	det
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rival	nmod:poss
5	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
9	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answers	parataxis
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 saying	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 member	det
12	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 member	amod
13	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	aux
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hear	ccomp
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	a politician	politician's rival					tree rules
2	hear in a quote	present	a politician = politician						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	the honourable member						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 will he most likely do next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	member					likely, next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Argue against him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	against	against	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	imperative	you not said here					against him = he	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Leave the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 room	det
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the room					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

Option 3

Agree with everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 everything	case
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here					with everything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with everything=Co-Agent

Option 4

Admit he is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Admit	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	imperative	you not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					wrong property	tree rules

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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