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title: "what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!" How is the speaker f… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!" How is the speaker feeling? Test 9 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; Mova's
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# Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

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"what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!" How is the speaker feeling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** speaker · **What happens:** do, feel

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:1
# text = "what the dickens have u done to the kitchen?!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dickens	dicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	u	u	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?!	?!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to the kitchen | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* How is the speaker feeling?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:2
# text = How is the speaker feeling?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
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	feeling	feel	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 | **feel** | present · progressive | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

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

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Shocked and cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:o1:1
# text = Shocked and cross
1	Shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Calm and pleased

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:o2:1
# text = Calm and pleased
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sleepy and bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:o3:1
# text = Sleepy and bored
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Happy and proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t9:o4:1
# text = Happy and proud
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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