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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

A teacher says "Josh is a bit off colour, so he went home." Why did Josh go home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Josh · What happens: say, be, go · To what, where: bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 teacher says "Josh is a bit off colour, so he went home."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
5	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 colour	case
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Josh	a bit				off colour	tree rules
3	go in a quote	past	Josh					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Why did Josh go home?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Josh					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He spilt paint on his clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paint	nsubj
2	spilt	spilt	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	aux
3	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 clothes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 clothes	nmod:poss
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 paint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint		He			his clothes			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He felt unwell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					unwell property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

His uniform was the wrong colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uniform	nmod:poss
2	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 colour	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	His uniform	the wrong colour					tree rules

Option 4

He was naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 naughty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 naughty	cop
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					naughty property	tree rules

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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