Test 7 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
"Mate, shut the front door, you got a puppy??" What is the speaker feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: shut, get, feel · To what, where: front door, puppy
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: "Mate, shut the front door, you got a puppy??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
| 2 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mate | punct |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 door | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 puppy | det |
| 12 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the front door | Mate vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | you | a puppy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puppy=Stimulus |
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 is the speaker feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 feeling | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | the speaker | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Angry about the puppy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 puppy | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 puppy | det |
| 4 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Angry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Cold from the open door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cold | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bored and tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tired | cc |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bored | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Surprised and excited
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 excited | cc |
| 3 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Surprised | conj |
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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