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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

A doctor says "we've found a growth, but it's probably harmless". What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, we · What happens: say, find, be · To what, where: growth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 doctor says "we've found a growth, but it's probably harmless".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 growth	det
9	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 harmless	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 harmless	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 harmless	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 harmless	cop
14	probably	probably	ADV	_	15 harmless	advmod
15	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 harmless	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a doctor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find in a quote	present · perfect	we	a growth					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	doctor					harmless, probably 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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A plant is growing in the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	a plant			the room			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

Option 2

Someone has grown taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 grown	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grown	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	Someone					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The patient is perfectly healthy everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 healthy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 healthy	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 healthy	advmod
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 healthy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the patient					everywhere, healthy, perfectly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There is a lump that is probably not cancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lump	det
4	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cancer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cancer	cop
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 cancer	advmod
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cancer	advmod
9	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lump	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a lump			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	present	a lump	cancer				probably property	tree rules

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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