--- title: "Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!" How does… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics description: "Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!" How does the speaker feel? 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How does the speaker feel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** stop, bang, drive, feel · **To what, where:** pan, me, twist This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: 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/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:1 # text = "Stop banging that pan, you're driving me round the twist!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 banging bang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 round round ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **bang** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | that pan | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pan=Theme | | 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | me | | the twist | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme round twist=Trajectory | 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:* How does the speaker feel? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:2 # text = How does the speaker feel? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 does do 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 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present · do-support | 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} Very annoyed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:o1:1 # text = Very annoyed 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Very happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:o2:1 # text = Very happy 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Lost and confused ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:o3:1 # text = Lost and confused 1 Lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Dizzy and sick ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t9:o4:1 # text = Dizzy and sick 1 Dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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