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Test 2 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Office email: "As previously mentioned (twice), the report is due Friday." How does the writer feel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Office email, writer · What happens: mention, be, feel · To what, where: Office email, due Friday

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Office email: "As previously mentioned (twice), the report is due Friday."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 email	compound
2	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Friday	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 mentioned	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mentioned	punct
5	As	as	ADV	_	7 mentioned	advmod
6	previously	previously	ADV	_	7 mentioned	advmod
7	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 email	acl:relcl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 twice	punct
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 mentioned	advmod
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 mentioned	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 report	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 report	det
13	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 email	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Friday	cop
15	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Friday	amod
16	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Friday	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Friday	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other in a quote	participle		Office email and the report not said here				previously, twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Office email and the report	due Friday					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 does the writer feel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 writer	det
4	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	the writer						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sorry for being late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 late	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sorry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						late property	tree rules

Option 2

Unsure of the date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 date	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 date	det
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unsure	obl

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

Option 3

Happy to remind you again, as a friendly help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remind	advcl
2	to	to	PART	_	3 remind	mark
3	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 remind	iobj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 remind	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 help	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 help	det
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 help	amod
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	to-infinitive			you		again	as a friendly help	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Annoyed at having to repeat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Annoyed	annoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	3 having	mark
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Annoyed	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 repeat	mark
5	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 having	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 repeat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	annoy	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	gerund							tree rules
3	repeat	to-infinitive		it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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