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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Gran: "Your grandad's a bit hard of hearing, so speak up." What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, you · What happens: be, speak up, do

This is test 5 · ★ 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: "Your grandad's a bit hard of hearing, so speak up."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandad	nmod:poss
5	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	obl:unmarked
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hearing	case
11	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 speak	advmod
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 speak	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Gran					of hearing; a bit obl:unmarked; hard property	tree rules
2	speak up speech: other in a quote	infinitive	Gran not said here						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Speak very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Speak louder and clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Speak	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 louder	cc
4	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	1 Speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					clearly, loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Speak to someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 someone	case
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Speak	obl
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					to someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent

Option 4

Speak more quietly and gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 quietly	advmod
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Speak	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gently	cc
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 quietly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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