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Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

"Gran's in hospital, we've done everything, it's in God's hands now." What does the family mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, hospital, family · What happens: do, be, mean · To what, where: everything, hospital, hands

This is test 10 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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: "Gran's in hospital, we've done everything, it's in God's hands now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hospital	punct
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hospital	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gran	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 hospital	case
5	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hospital	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 done	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hands	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hands	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hands	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hands	case
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 hands	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 God	case
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 done	obl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 done	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · perfect	we	everything		Gran's hospital	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	hospital			God's hands			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 the family mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	the family						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Gran is now with a priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 priest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 priest	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 priest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gran				now	with a priest	tree rules

Option 2

Gran has already recovered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 recovered	advmod
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	present · perfect	Gran						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The doctors have given up work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctors	det
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 given	compound:prt
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present · perfect · passive		the doctors					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They can only wait and hope

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 wait	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
6	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	can	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	infinitive	They not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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