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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Dad: "Bloody hell, Gran's been under the knife again." What happened to Gran?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: knife, Gran

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Dad: "Bloody hell, Gran's been under the knife again."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 hell	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hell	punct
4	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hell	amod
5	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knife	punct
7	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 knife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gran	case
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 knife	cop
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 knife	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knife	det
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hell	appos
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 knife	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knife	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 knife	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	participle				Gran's knife	again		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 happened to Gran?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Gran	case
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past			Gran				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She cut herself cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 cut	obj
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	She	herself = she					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary cooking=Product

Option 2

She had her hair cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	her hair					tree rules
2	cut	participle	her hair not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She had another operation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 operation	det
4	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	another operation					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Patient

Option 4

She was attacked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 attacked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attacked	aux:pass
3	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past · passive		She					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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