Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Which phrase is the respectful way to talk about autism?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: respectful way

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 autism	case
10	autism	autism	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which phrase	the respectful way					tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive						about autism	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about autism=Topic

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

Laid up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Laid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay up	participle							vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Lost his marbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 marbles	nmod:poss
3	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		his marbles					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

On the spectrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 spectrum	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spectrum	det
3	spectrum	spectrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Fond of a drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fond	fond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 drink	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fond	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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