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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Gran: "I had one of my funny turns at the bus stop." What should a grown-up do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: have, grow up · To what, where: one

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Gran: "I had one of my funny turns at the bus stop."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 turns	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 turns	nmod:poss
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turns	amod
10	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 stop	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stop	det
13	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stop	compound
14	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Gran	one of my funny turns at the bus stop					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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.

Sentence 2: What should a grown-up do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 do	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	compound:prt
7	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Buy her a new bus pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buy	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pass	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pass	amod
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	compound
6	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a new bus pass	her = she				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary pass=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Worry, and take her to a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 take	cc
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 doctor	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 doctor	det
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive	Worry	her = she		a doctor			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to doctor=Destination

Option 3

Laugh, because she told a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	she	a joke					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

Option 4

Nothing, she only turned around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	past	Nothing					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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