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title: Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again." What is the neighbour saying? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

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Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again." What is the neighbour saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad, neighbour · **What happens:** be, kick, say · **To what, where:** rough bloody handful, he · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:1
# text = Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again."
1	Neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your lad | a rough bloody handful |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | he |  |  | again |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient fence=Result |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the neighbour saying?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:2
# text = What is the neighbour saying?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | the neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The boy has big hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:o1:1
# text = The boy has big hands
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the boy | big hands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The boy is strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:o2:1
# text = The boy is strong
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The boy is helpful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:o3:1
# text = The boy is helpful
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | helpful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The boy is hard to control

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t2:o4:1
# text = The boy is hard to control
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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**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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