Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
News: "Three people were hurt. One is in a comfortable condition." What is true of that person?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: One · What happens: hurt, be · To what, where: Three people, comfortable condition
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 5 «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: "Three people were hurt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| 4 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 people | nummod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux:pass |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 News | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | past · passive | Three people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: One is in a comfortable condition."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 condition | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 condition | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 condition | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 condition | det |
| 5 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 condition | amod |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 condition | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 condition | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | a comfortable condition | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What is true of that person?
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 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 person | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of that person; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Not hurt at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | imperative | you not said here | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Sitting in a soft bed reading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reading | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reading | det |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reading | amod |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reading | compound |
| 6 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | a soft bed reading | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reading=Location |
Option 3
Already at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 3 home | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 home | case |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Seriously hurt but stable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 2 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stable | cc |
| 4 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hurt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | imperative | you not said here | seriously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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