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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another." What is the speaker angry about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, telly, speaker · What happens: give up, not pay, ghost, be · To what, where: Mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2 «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: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mate	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mate	punct
4	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chatty	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ghost	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 telly	det
7	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ghost	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 telly	case
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ghost	amod
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 given	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ghost	det
12	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mate	appos
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 ghost	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paying	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 paying	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 paying	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 paying	advmod
18	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Mate	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 paying	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Chatty	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Chatty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up in a quote	participle							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not pay in a quote	present · progressive	I	Mate not said here				for another	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mate=Asset for another=Theme
3	ghost in a quote		the telly						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 is the speaker angry about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speaker	amod
6	about	about	ADP	_	5 angry	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the speaker						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The TV broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 TV	det
2	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the TV						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The TV showed a ghost film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 TV	det
2	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 film	det
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 film	compound
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the TV	a ghost film					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent film=Recipient

Option 3

A ghost broke the TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 TV	det
5	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	a ghost	the TV					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tv=Patient

Option 4

It was stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux:pass
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · passive		It					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location 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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