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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

The dentist: "This might cause a little discomfort." Jack says "so it won't hurt?" What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: This, Jack, discomfort · What happens: cause, say, not hurt, be · To what, where: little discomfort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: The dentist: "This might cause a little discomfort."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dentist	det
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
5	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 cause	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	aux
7	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dentist	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 discomfort	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 discomfort	amod
10	discomfort	discomfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause in a quote	might	This	a little discomfort					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition discomfort=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: Jack says "so it won't hurt?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 hurt	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hurt in a quote	future	discomfort						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Jack will be cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	Jack					cold property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It will probably hurt a little

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	4 hurt	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	future	It	a little				probably property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Patient

Option 3

Jack will be bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bored	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 bored	aux:pass
4	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	future · passive		Jack					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

It definitely will not hurt at all, not one bit

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 hurt	nsubj
2	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	5 hurt	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hurt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bit	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bit	nummod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	future	It	one bit		all		definitely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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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