Exam question 3 · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★

Of the expressions "gosh", "cripes", "darn" and "jeepers", identify that which replaces a swear word rather than a holy name.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, replace · To what, where: swear word

This is exam question 3 of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 expressions	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expressions	det
3	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 identify	obl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gosh	punct
5	gosh	gosh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 expressions	amod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gosh	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 expressions	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cripes	punct
9	cripes	cripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 expressions	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cripes	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 darn	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 darn	punct
13	darn	darn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cripes	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 darn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jeepers	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 jeepers	punct
17	jeepers	jeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cripes	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cripes	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 expressions	punct
20	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 replaces	mark
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 replaces	nsubj
23	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 identify	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 word	det
25	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 word	compound
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 replaces	obj
27	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 name	cc
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 rather	fixed
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 name	det
30	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 name	amod
31	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 word	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here					of the expressions and cripes and jeepers	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	replace	present		a swear word rather a holy name					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Co-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

"Darn"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Darn	punct
2	Darn	darn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Darn	punct

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

Option 2

"Gosh"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Gosh	punct
2	Gosh	gosh	INTJ	_	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Gosh	punct

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

Option 3

"Jeepers"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Jeepers	punct
2	Jeepers	Jeepers	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Jeepers	punct

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

Option 4

"Cripes"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cripes	punct
2	Cripes	cripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cripes	punct

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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