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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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"Mate, shut the front door, you got a puppy??" What is the speaker feeling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** shut, get, feel · **To what, where:** front door, puppy

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «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/40-with-all-due-respect/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Mate, shut the front door, you got a puppy??"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:1
# text = "Mate, shut the front door, you got a puppy??"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the front door |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you | a puppy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puppy=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the speaker feeling?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:2
# text = What is the speaker feeling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	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	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present · progressive | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Angry about the puppy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:o1:1
# text = Angry about the puppy
1	Angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cold from the open door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:o2:1
# text = Cold from the open door
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bored and tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:o3:1
# text = Bored and tired
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Surprised and excited

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t7:o4:1
# text = Surprised and excited
1	Surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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