--- title: "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" How does the speaker… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics description: "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" How does the speaker feel? Test 5 · ★ 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 question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rude… "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" How does the speaker feel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** speaker · **What happens:** cry out, close, flip, feel · **To what, where:** flipping door This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 37 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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/37-bats-and-gosh/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t5:1 # text = "for crying out loud, close the flipping door!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 for for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 loud loud ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 flipping flip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **close** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the flipping door | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 3 | **flip** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:37-bats-and-gosh:t5:2 # 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 {#o1} Scared ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t5:o1:1 # text = Scared 1 Scared scared 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:37-bats-and-gosh:t5: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} Sad and crying ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t5:o3:1 # text = Sad and crying 1 Sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Annoyed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:37-bats-and-gosh:t5:o4:1 # text = Annoyed 1 Annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` 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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