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Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

"I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own bakery." How did losing the job turn out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, job, my · What happens: lose, be, run, job, turn out · To what, where: job, blessing, disguise, own bakery

This is test 7 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: "I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own bakery."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 job	nmod:poss
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blessing	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 blessing	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blessing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blessing	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blessing	det
11	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 disguise	case
13	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blessing	nmod
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 run	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 run	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 run	nsubj
17	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bakery	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bakery	amod
20	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past	I	my job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	past	job	a blessing		disguise			tree rules
3	run in a quote	present	I	my own bakery			now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bakery=Trajectory
4	job in a quote		my						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: How did losing the job turn out?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 losing	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 job	det
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 losing	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 turn	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 losing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support		the job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	turn out	infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Badly forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 forever	advmod
2	forever	forever	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Well in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Well	obl

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

Option 3

Nobody knows yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It was all a disguise

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	5 disguise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disguise	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 disguise	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 disguise	det
5	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	all disguise					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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