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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chatty Bloody car · What happens: bite, happen · To what, where: dust, motorway

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 car	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Chatty	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 car	punct
4	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 car	amod
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 bit	advmod
7	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dust	det
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 motorway	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 motorway	det
12	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite in a quote	past	Chatty Bloody car	the dust		the motorway		finally property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Patient on motorway=Location

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The car got covered in dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 dust	case
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the car				in dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in dust=Theme

Option 2

The car was washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	aux:pass
4	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past · passive		the car					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The car broke down for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 broke	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	past	the car					for good	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The car hit a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the car	a man					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme

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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