--- title: Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." What happ… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." What happened? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." What happened? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Chatty Bloody car · **What happens:** bite, happen · **To what, where:** dust, motorway This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:1 # text = Chatty: "Bloody car finally bit the dust on the motorway." 1 Chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 finally finally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 motorway motorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** *in a quote* | past | Chatty Bloody car | the dust | | the motorway | | finally *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Patient on motorway=Location | 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? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:2 # text = What happened? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The car got covered in dust ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:o1:1 # text = The car got covered in dust 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | past · passive | | the car | | | | in dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in dust=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} The car was washed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:o2:1 # text = The car was washed 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | past · passive | | the car | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The car broke down for good ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:o3:1 # text = The car broke down for good 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | past | the car | | | | | for good | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} The car hit a man ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t11:o4:1 # text = The car hit a man 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | the car | a man | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-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. 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