--- title: Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another." What is the speaker angry about? 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What is the speaker angry about? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, telly, speaker · **What happens:** give up, not pay, ghost, be · **To what, where:** Mate This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2 «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/2-death-official-and-slang/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:1 # text = Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another." 1 Chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 telly telly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **pay** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | Mate *not said here* | | | | for another | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mate=Asset for another=Theme | | 3 | **ghost** *in a quote* | | the telly | | | | | | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 the speaker angry about? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:2 # text = What is the speaker angry about? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the speaker | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The TV broke ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:o1:1 # text = The TV broke 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | the TV | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} The TV showed a ghost film ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:o2:1 # text = The TV showed a ghost film 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | the TV | a ghost film | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent film=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} A ghost broke the TV ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:o3:1 # text = A ghost broke the TV 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | a ghost | the TV | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tv=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} It was stolen ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t3:o4:1 # text = It was stolen 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | past · passive | | It | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location 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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