--- title: A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". How does the boss… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics description: A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". How does the boss feel? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 38 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/t10/) [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: rudeness a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". How does the boss feel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** frigging server, boss · **What happens:** be, feel This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 38 «Soft words for hard things: 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/38-drat-and-the-f-word/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:1 # text = A boss texts: "the frigging server is down AGAIN". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 frigging frigging NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 server server NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 AGAIN again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the frigging server | | | | | again, down *property* | tree rules | 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 boss feel? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:2 # text = How does the boss 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 boss boss 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 boss | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:o1:1 # text = Cold 1 Cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Very annoyed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:o2:1 # 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 3 {#o3} Glad ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:o3:1 # text = Glad 1 Glad glad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Calm ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t10:o4:1 # text = Calm 1 Calm calm 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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