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Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

A care home note: "Mr Wood is sometimes confused at night." What would a nurse probably do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mr Wood, nurse · What happens: be, do

This is test 4 · ★ 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: A care home note: "Mr Wood is sometimes confused at night."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 note	det
2	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 note	compound
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 note	compound
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 confused	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 confused	punct
7	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wood	compound
8	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 confused	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 confused	cop
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 confused	advmod
11	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 note	appos
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confused	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 confused	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 confused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mr Wood				night	confused, sometimes property	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.

Sentence 2: What would a nurse probably do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	a nurse					probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Watch over him because of his dementia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Watch	obl
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 dementia	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 because	fixed
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dementia	nmod:poss
7	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here					over him = he; because his dementia	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location

Option 2

Send him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	him = he				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Give him a puzzle to keep him busy at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 puzzle	det
4	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a puzzle	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient puzzle=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he			night	busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Teach him maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Teach	obj
3	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	imperative	you not said here	maths	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient math=Topic

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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