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title: Identify the word for which the exclamation "crikey" constitutes a s… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the word for which the exclamation "crikey" constitutes a softened substitute. Exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude…

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Identify the word for which the exclamation "crikey" constitutes a softened substitute.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, exclamation · **What happens:** identify, constitute, soften · **To what, where:** word, softened substitute

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/37-bats-and-gosh/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:e1:1
# text = Identify the word for which the exclamation "crikey" constitutes a softened substitute.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	crikey	crikey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	constitutes	constitute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	softened	soften	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	substitute	substitute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **constitute** | present | the exclamation | a softened substitute |  |  |  | for the word | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme substitute=Pivot |
| 3 | **soften** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Christ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:e1:o1:1
# text = Christ
1	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cricket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:e1:o2:1
# text = Cricket
1	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crocodile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:e1:o3:1
# text = Crocodile
1	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Crisis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:e1:o4:1
# text = Crisis
1	Crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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