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title: "dog's made a mess again, bloody hell, who left the door shut" — wha… — Soft words for hard things: animals an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "dog's made a mess again, bloody hell, who left the door shut" — what has the dog done? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

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"dog's made a mess again, bloody hell, who left the door shut" — what has the dog done?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bloody hell · **What happens:** make, leave, do · **To what, where:** dog, door

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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/18-pets-and-money/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t4:1
# text = "dog's made a mess again, bloody hell, who left the door shut" — what has the dog done?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | dog |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mess=Product |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | bloody hell | the door |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Knocked over a vase of flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t4:o1:1
# text = Knocked over a vase of flowers
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | participle |  |  |  | a vase of flowers |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over vase=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chewed a shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t4:o2:1
# text = Chewed a shoe
1	Chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | participle |  | a shoe |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Gone to the toilet indoors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t4:o3:1
# text = Gone to the toilet indoors
1	Gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  |  |  | the toilet |  | indoors *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Spilled its water bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t4:o4:1
# text = Spilled its water bowl
1	Spilled	spill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** | participle |  | its water bowl |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bowl=Theme |

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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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