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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." What do you learn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gossip, you · What happens: cark, learn · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carked	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 carked	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mick	punct
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mick	amod
5	Mick	Mick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carked	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 carked	advmod
7	carked	cark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 goat	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goat	det
11	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goat	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goat	amod
13	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carked	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 goat	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 goat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cark in a quote	past	Gossip	it				the stubborn old goat obl; finally property	tree rules

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 do you learn?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · do-support	you						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Mick died, and the speaker is being rough about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mick	Mick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rough	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rough	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 speaker	det
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rough	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rough	cop
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rough	cop
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rough	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Mick						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	the speaker					about it; rough property	tree rules

Option 2

Mick's goat died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mick	Mick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goat	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mick	case
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	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	die	past	Mick's goat						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Mick is very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mick	Mick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mick					ill property	tree rules

Option 4

Mick lost an argument

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mick	Mick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 argument	det
4	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Mick	a argument					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality

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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