--- title: A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". Wh… — Soft words for hard things: school rep… · tree and pragmatics description: A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". What happened to the dogs? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/t8/) [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: school rep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an… A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". What happened to the dogs? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** council notice · **What happens:** say, destroy, happen · **To what, where:** three stray dogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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/17-school-and-pets/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:1 # text = A council notice says three stray dogs were "humanely destroyed". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 stray stray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 humanely humanely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a council notice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **destroy** *in a quote* | past · passive | | three stray dogs | | | | humanely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 the dogs? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:2 # text = What happened to the dogs? 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 _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | to the dogs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} They were given medicine ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:o1:1 # text = They were given medicine 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · passive | | They | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient medicine=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} They were set free in the woods ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:o2:1 # text = They were set free in the woods 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past · passive | | They | | the woods | | free *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} They found new owners ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:o3:1 # text = They found new owners 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | They | new owners | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} They were killed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:17-school-and-pets:t8:o4:1 # text = They were killed 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past · passive | | They | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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