--- title: An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" What does he… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics description: An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" What does he feel? Test 6 · ★ 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 wron --- [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/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" What does he feel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aussie farmer, farmer · **What happens:** see, say, feel · **To what, where:** huge spider, Strewth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:1 # text = An Aussie farmer sees a huge spider and says "Strewth!" 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Aussie Aussie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Strewth Strewth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | a Aussie farmer | a huge spider | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spider=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Aussie farmer *not said here* | Strewth | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent strewth=Topic | 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:* What does he feel? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:2 # text = What does he feel? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present · do-support | farmer | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Hunger ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:o1:1 # text = Hunger 1 Hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Boredom ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:o2:1 # text = Boredom 1 Boredom boredom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Surprise ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:o3:1 # text = Surprise 1 Surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Joy ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t6:o4:1 # text = Joy 1 Joy Joy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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