Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
Select the response that most accurately characterises the term "halitosis".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, most · What happens: select, characteris · To what, where: response, term
This is exam question 3 of lesson 5 «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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 characterises | mark |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 characterises | nsubj |
| 6 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 5 most | advmod |
| 7 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Select | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 term | det |
| 9 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterises | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 halitosis | punct |
| 11 | halitosis | halitosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 term | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 halitosis | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | ||||
| 2 | characteris | present | most | the term | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A medical term for bad breath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 2 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 term | amod |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 breath | case |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breath | amod |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A colloquial term for a headache
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 2 | colloquial | colloquial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | compound |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 headache | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 headache | det |
| 6 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A medical term for baldness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 2 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 term | amod |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 baldness | case |
| 5 | baldness | baldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A colloquial term for hiccups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 2 | colloquial | colloquial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | compound |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 hiccups | case |
| 5 | hiccups | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 term | nmod |
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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