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title: "Bloody hell, look at him, he's had a right skinful." What is the sp… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bloody hell, look at him, he's had a right skinful." What is the speaker saying? Test 4 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

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"Bloody hell, look at him, he's had a right skinful." What is the speaker saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bloody hell, hell, speaker · **What happens:** look, have, say · **To what, where:** right skinful · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Bloody hell, look at him, he's had a right skinful."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:1
# text = "Bloody hell, look at him, he's had a right skinful."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	skinful	skinful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Bloody hell |  |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · passive | hell | a right skinful |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skinful=Patient |

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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 speaker saying?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:2
# text = What is the speaker 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	speaker	speaker	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 speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The man is very drunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:o1:1
# text = The man is very drunk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	drunk	drunk	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 man |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The man is very angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:o2:1
# text = The man is very angry
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	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 man |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The man is very fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:o3:1
# text = The man is very fat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fat	fat	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 man |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The man is very sunburnt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t4:o4:1
# text = The man is very sunburnt
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sunburnt	sunburnt	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 man |  |  |  |  | sunburnt *property* | tree rules |

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