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

Gran says "Don't sit in the garden all day, you'll get a touch of the sun." What is she warning about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran, you · What happens: say, not sit, get, warn, touch · To what, where: garden, touch, sun. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
4	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sit	advmod
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 touch	det
17	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sun.	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun.	det
20	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touch	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 warning	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 warning	obj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 warning	aux
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 warning	nsubj
25	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sun.	acl
26	about	about	ADP	_	25 warning	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Gran				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not sit in a quote	infinitive · do-support			the garden	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	get in a quote	future	you	a touch of the sun.			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer touch=Stimulus
4	warn speech: warn	present · progressive	Gran	the sun.			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	touch in a quote			the sun.			nom touch «event transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mild sunstroke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sunstroke	amod
2	sunstroke	sunstroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Getting too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Being touched by a bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 touched	aux:pass
2	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 bee	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund · passive	a bee						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A nice suntan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 suntan	det
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suntan	amod
3	suntan	suntan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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