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title: A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping wi… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." What kind of remark is this? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2 «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
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# Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

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A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." What kind of remark is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, this · **What happens:** touch, sleep, be · **To what, where:** car, kind

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:1
# text = A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my car |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | future · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | with the fishes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 kind of remark is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:2
# text = What kind of remark is this?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | what kind |  |  |  | of remark | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A joke about a fish tank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:o1:1
# text = A joke about a fish tank
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An invitation to go fishing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:o2:1
# text = An invitation to go fishing
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | to-infinitive |  | fishing |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A promise of a holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:o3:1
# text = A promise of a holiday
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** |  |  | a holiday |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A threat to kill, in gangster slang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t5:o4:1
# text = A threat to kill, in gangster slang
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	gangster	gangster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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