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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." What kind of remark is this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, this · What happens: touch, sleep, be · To what, where: car, kind

This is test 5 · ★ 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: A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guy	det
2	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guy	amod
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 film	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 film	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guy	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Touch	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Touch	punct
9	Touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 guy	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 car	nmod:poss
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Touch	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 Touch	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sleeping	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sleeping	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sleeping	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sleeping	aux
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Touch	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fishes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fishes	det
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sleeping	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guy	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch in a quote	infinitive		my car			again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme
2	sleep in a quote	future · progressive	you					with the fishes	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 kind of remark is this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 remark	case
4	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	cop
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 kind	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	what kind				of remark	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A joke about a fish tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 tank	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tank	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tank	compound
6	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joke	nmod

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

Option 2

An invitation to go fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 invitation	det
2	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invitation	acl
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive		fishing					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme

Option 3

A promise of a holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise			a holiday					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A threat to kill, in gangster slang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 threat	det
2	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kill	mark
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threat	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slang	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 slang	case
7	gangster	gangster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slang	compound
8	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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