Test 14 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Which of these is a rude gesture, not rude words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gesture	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 gesture	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 gesture	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gesture	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gesture	det
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gesture	amod
7	gesture	gesture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 words	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 words	advmod
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gesture	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 gesture	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a rude gesture and rude words	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Per my last email

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Per	per	ADP	_	4 email	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 email	nmod:poss
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 email	amod
4	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	email		my						nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

No offence, but

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 offence	det
2	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 offence	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	2 offence	cc

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The two-fingered salute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salute	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fingered	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 two	punct
4	fingered	finger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 salute	amod
5	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finger	participle							tree rules

Option 4

Interesting choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 choice	amod
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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