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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

A friend whispers "Ollie's got BO, no one wants to sit next to him." What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Ollie, one, problem · What happens: whisper, get, want, sit, be · To what, where: BO, Ollie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 friend whispers "Ollie's got BO, no one wants to sit next to him."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whispers	nsubj
3	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
5	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 whispers	ccomp
8	BO	BO	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wants	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 whispers	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sit	mark
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wants	xcomp
15	next	next	ADV	_	14 sit	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sit	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whispers	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 whispers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	a friend						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · passive	Ollie	BO					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bo=Stimulus
3	want in a quote	present	no one						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sit not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	no one not said here		Ollie			next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ollie is a bad sport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sport	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sport	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sport	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sport	amod
5	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ollie	a bad sport					tree rules

Option 2

Ollie is very loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ollie					loud property	tree rules

Option 3

Ollie has a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ollie	a cold					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ollie smells of sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sweat	case
4	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Ollie					of sweat	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of sweat=Theme

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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