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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". What happened to the dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: council notice · What happens: say, destroy, happen · To what, where: three stray dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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: A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 notice	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notice	compound
3	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dogs	nummod
6	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 destroyed	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 destroyed	aux:pass
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 destroyed	punct
10	humanely	humanely	ADV	_	11 destroyed	advmod
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 destroyed	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a council notice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	destroy in a quote	past · passive		three stray dogs				humanely property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 to the dogs?

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	to	to	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were given medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		They					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient medicine=Theme

Option 2

They were set free in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux:pass
3	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		They		the woods		free property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination

Option 3

They found new owners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owners	amod
4	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	They	new owners					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux:pass
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive		They					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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