--- title: Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slam… — Soft words for hard things: children's… · tree and pragmatics description: Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door. What does Dad mean? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo… Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door. What does Dad mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** son, Dad · **What happens:** come, slam, mean · **To what, where:** little darling, door This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:1 # text = Dad, sarcastic: "Oh, here comes the little darling," as his son slams the door. 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 sarcastic sarcastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 9 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 darling darling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 slams slam VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | | the little darling | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darling=Theme | | 2 | **slam** | present | his son | the door | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | 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 does Dad mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:2 # text = What does Dad mean? 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 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | Dad | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The son is sweet ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:o1:1 # text = The son is sweet 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the son | | | | | sweet *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} The son is a baby ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:o2:1 # text = The son is a baby 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the son | a baby | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The son is behaving badly ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:o3:1 # text = The son is behaving badly 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 behaving behave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behave** | present · progressive | the son | | | | | badly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} The son is small ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t8:o4:1 # text = The son is small 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the son | | | | | small *property* | 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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