Test 3 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"no offence but ur drawing looks like a potato" Was the speaker kind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: offence, ur · What happens: look, be, draw · To what, where: speaker kind

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	_	7 looks	punct
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 offence	det
3	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 drawing	cc
5	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drawing	nmod:poss
6	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offence	conj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 kind	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 potato	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 potato	det
10	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct
12	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kind	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kind	det
14	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	compound
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	no offence but ur's drawing		like a potato	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past		the speaker kind		tree rules
3	draw in a quote		ur			nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is a joke about food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke				about food	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, potatoes are lovely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lovely	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lovely	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lovely	cop
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	potatoes					lovely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is an insult with a polite start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 insult	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 insult	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insult	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 insult	det
6	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 start	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 start	det
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 start	amod
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insult	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a insult				with a polite start	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, "no offence" makes it kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 offence	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 offence	det
5	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 offence	punct
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 makes	obj
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	no offence	it				kind property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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