Test 12 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"bless ur heart, u tried to microwave the ice cream to soften it?? lol" What does the speaker think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, u, speaker · What happens: bless, try, microwave, soften, think · To what, where: heart, ice cream, cream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bless	punct
2	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bless	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct
6	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bless	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 microwave	mark
9	microwave	microwave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cream	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cream	compound
12	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 microwave	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 soften	mark
14	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 microwave	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 soften	obj
16	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 bless	punct
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	23 think	discourse
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 think	obj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 speaker	det
22	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 think	nsubj
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bless	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 bless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bless in a quote	imperative	you not said here	ur's heart	tree rules
2	try in a quote	past	u		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	microwave not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	u not said here	the ice cream	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cream=Patient
4	soften in a quote	to-infinitive	u not said here	cream	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	think speech: other	present · do-support	the speaker		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

That was a foolish thing to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a foolish thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That was very brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					brave property	tree rules

Option 3

That was a kind thing to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a kind thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That was a clever idea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 idea	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a clever idea					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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