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title: "U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate.… — Soft words for hard things: failure an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate." What is the speaker saying? Test 5 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

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"U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate." What is the speaker saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** U, lights, speaker · **What happens:** put, be, say · **To what, where:** milk, oven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:1
# text = "U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	U	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	ccomp	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | past | U | the milk |  | the oven |  | mate *vocative* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme in oven=Destination |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lights |  |  |  |  | on *property* | tree rules |

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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:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:2
# 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 {#o1}

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The oven is broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:o1:1
# text = The oven is broken
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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You were not thinking at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:o2:1
# text = You were not thinking at all
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | You |  |  | all |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The lights in the house are on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:o3:1
# text = The lights in the house are on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the lights in the house |  |  |  |  | on *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody is at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:35-mistakes-and-stupidity:t5:o4:1
# text = Nobody is at home
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nobody |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |

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