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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

News: "The actor died last week after a long illness." What does the reader probably guess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: News, reader · What happens: die, guess

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability 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: "The actor died last week after a long illness."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 actor	det
5	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 illness	advcl
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 illness	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 illness	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 illness	amod
12	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 illness	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 illness	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	News				week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 reader probably guess?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present · do-support	the reader					probably property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He died very suddenly

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	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 died	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He died of cancer or a slow disease

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	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cancer	case
4	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 disease	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 disease	det
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 disease	amod
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cancer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					of cancer or a slow disease	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cancer=Causer

Option 3

He died of old age only

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	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He				of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer

Option 4

He died in a car crash on the motorway

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	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 crash	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crash	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crash	compound
6	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 motorway	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 motorway	det
9	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					on the motorway; in a car crash	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crash=Attribute

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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