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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

A man calls a sick woman in hospital "not all there". Why is that unkind?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: sick woman, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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 man calls a sick woman in hospital "not all there".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 hospital	case
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 there	advmod
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 calls	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a man		a sick woman	hospital; there			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient

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 that unkind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unkind	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unkind	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 unkind	nsubj
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unkind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					unkind property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He is mocking her mind when she is unwell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mocking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mocking	aux
3	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mocking	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 unwell	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unwell	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unwell	cop
9	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mocking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	present · progressive	He	her mind					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme
2	is	present	she					unwell property	tree rules
3	mind		her = she						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He is praising her too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 praising	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 praising	aux
3	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 praising	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 praising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	present · progressive	He	her = she					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He is saying she has gone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saying	ccomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · perfect	she					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He is using a medical word wrongly to describe her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 using	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 using	aux
3	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 using	obj
7	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	3 using	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 describe	mark
9	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 using	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 describe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	He	a medical word				wrongly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	describe	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=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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