Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Identify the plain meaning of the expression "visually impaired" as employed in official documents.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, impair, employ, mean · To what, where: plain meaning, expression, official documents

This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meaning	det
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meaning	amod
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 expression	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 expression	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meaning	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 impaired	punct
9	visually	visually	ADV	_	10 impaired	advmod
10	impaired	impair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 expression	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 impaired	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 employed	mark
13	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 impaired	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 documents	case
15	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 documents	amod
16	documents	document	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 employed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the plain meaning of the expression			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	impair in a quote	participle		the expression not said here		visually property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	employ	participle			official documents		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean			the expression			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Exceedingly fatigued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	2 fatigued	advmod
2	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fatigue	participle						exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Wearing tinted spectacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tinted	tint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spectacles	amod
3	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund		tinted spectacles					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source
2	tint	participle							vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Unable to read in a foreign language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 read	mark
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Unable	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 language	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 language	det
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 language	amod
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive				a foreign language			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Partly or fully blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Partly	partly	ADV	_	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 blind	cc
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Partly	conj

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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