Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout." Where is Father?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Father · What happens: lay up, be · To what, where: Father
This is test 11 · ★ 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: An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | aux:pass |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 letter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 laid | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gout | case |
| 11 | gout | gout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay up in a quote | present · passive | Father | with gout | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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: Where is Father?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Father | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Stuck in bed, ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuck | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stuck | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Lying in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
Option 3
At work on a farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 work | case |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 farm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 work | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At the doctor's shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 shop | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shop | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 doctor | case |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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