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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." Why is the speaker staying in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Chatty weather, speaker · What happens: be, stay in · To what, where: Chatty weather

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weather	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
4	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	compound
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	1 Chatty	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chatty	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 weather	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 weather	cop
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 weather	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weather	det
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	12 weather	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 staying	punct
15	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 weather	acl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 staying	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 staying	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 staying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I not said here					out property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	I			the Chatty weather		anyway property	tree rules
3	stay in in a quote	gerund	the Chatty weather not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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 is the speaker staying in?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 staying	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 staying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staying	nsubj
5	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 staying	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 staying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in	present · progressive	the speaker						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are scared of storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 storms	case
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of storms; scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They feel a bit ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	obl:unmarked
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp

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

Option 3

They are being punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 punished	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 punished	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 punished	aux:pass
4	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present · passive		They					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

It is raining

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 raining	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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