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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

News: "Sales of the new phone have flatlined." What does "flatlined" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sales · What happens: flatlin, mean · To what, where: News

This is test 8 · ★ 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: News: "Sales of the new phone have flatlined."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flatlined	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sales	punct
4	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flatlined	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 phone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phone	amod
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sales	nmod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flatlined	aux
10	flatlined	flatlin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flatlined	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flatlined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatlin in a quote	present · perfect	Sales of the new phone	News					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 does "flatlined" mean here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 flatlined	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flatlined	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 flatlined	punct
4	flatlined	flatlin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 flatlined	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flatlined	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flatlined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatlin in a quote	present · do-support							tree rules
2	mean	infinitive				here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sales went up fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Sales					fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The phone died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	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	the phone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

The phone went flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the phone					flat property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sales stopped growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Sales						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Sales not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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