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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

The farmer had to "dispatch" a sheep hurt by a car. What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: have, hurt, do · To what, where: dispatch, sheep

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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: The farmer had to "dispatch" a sheep hurt by a car.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 dispatch	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dispatch	punct
6	dispatch	dispatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dispatch	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sheep	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 car	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurt	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the farmer	dispatch					tree rules
2	hurt	participle		a sheep not said here				by a car	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 did he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	farmer						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Took it to hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 hospital	case
4	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		it		hospital			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hospital=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Killed it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Killed	obj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Killed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		it				quickly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Posted it to the vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Posted	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 vet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vet	det
5	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Posted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	participle		it		the vet			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vet=Destination

Option 4

Sent it to market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 market	case
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		it		market			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to market=Destination

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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