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How upset is she? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fiddlesticks, mum · **What happens:** forget, be · **To what, where:** milk This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 39 «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/39-pardon-my-french/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A mum, cheerful: "Oh fiddlesticks, I've forgotten the milk." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:1 # text = A mum, cheerful: "Oh fiddlesticks, I've forgotten the milk." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 fiddlesticks fiddlestick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** *in a quote* | present · perfect | fiddlesticks | the milk | | | | | 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 upset is she? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:2 # text = How upset is she? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | mum | | | | | upset *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Furious and swearing ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:o1:1 # text = Furious and swearing 1 Furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 swearing swear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Frightened and panicking ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:o2:1 # text = Frightened and panicking 1 Frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 panicking panic VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **panic** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Very sad and crying ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:o3:1 # text = Very sad and crying 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 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} Only mildly annoyed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t8:o4:1 # text = Only mildly annoyed 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 mildly mildly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 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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