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title: News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night." What did… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics
description: News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night." What did the police deal with? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

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News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night." What did the police deal with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Police · **What happens:** attend, do · **To what, where:** police deal

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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/14-family-and-behaviour/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:1
# text = News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night."
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Mill	Mill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** *in a quote* | past | Police |  |  |  | night |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did the police deal with?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:2
# text = What did the police deal with?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the police deal |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A violent quarrel at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:o1:1
# text = A violent quarrel at home
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A broken shop window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:o2:1
# text = A broken shop window
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A lost dog in the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:o3:1
# text = A lost dog in the street
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A car crash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t3:o4:1
# text = A car crash
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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