--- title: Uncle: "Boisterous? Mate, they wrecked the garden." What does it tel… — Soft words for hard things: children's… · tree and pragmatics description: Uncle: "Boisterous? Mate, they wrecked the garden." What does it tell you? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: children's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo… Uncle: "Boisterous? Mate, they wrecked the garden." What does it tell you? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, garden · **What happens:** wreck, tell · **To what, where:** garden, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» 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/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Uncle: "Boisterous? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:1 # text = Uncle: "Boisterous? 1 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Boisterous boisterous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* Mate, they wrecked the garden." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:2 # text = Mate, they wrecked the garden." 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wrecked wreck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wreck** | past | they | the garden | | | | Mate *vocative* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | *Sentence 3:* What does it tell you? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:3 # text = What does it tell you? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | garden | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The children did the gardening ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:o1:1 # text = The children did the gardening 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gardening gardening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the children | the gardening | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardening=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The children were rough and noisy ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:o2:1 # text = The children were rough and noisy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the children | | | | | rough *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} The children were asleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:o3:1 # text = The children were asleep 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the children | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} The children were quiet and polite ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t11:o4:1 # text = The children were quiet and polite 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the children | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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