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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread." What kind of remark is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Londoner · What happens: cross, be · To what, where: me, brown bread, kind

This is test 5 · ★ 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 Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Londoner	det
2	Londoner	londoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 film	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Cross	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Cross	punct
8	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 film	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Cross	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bread	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bread	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bread	cop
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bread	amod
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Cross	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 film	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 film	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	infinitive		me					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	you	brown bread					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 kind of remark is it?

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	Londoner	what kind				of remark	tree rules

The options

Option 1

An offer of some fresh food from his kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 offer	det
2	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 food	det
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offer	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kitchen	nmod:poss
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer			some fresh food from his kitchen					nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A threat to kill, in rhyming 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	rhyming	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 slang	amod
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
2	rhyme	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

A joke about a sunburn

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	_	5 sunburn	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sunburn	det
5	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joke	nmod

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

Option 4

A compliment about baking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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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