--- title: Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." What do… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." What do you learn? Test 8 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/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: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." What do you learn? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gossip, you · **What happens:** cark, learn · **To what, where:** it This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:1 # text = Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." 1 Gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 finally finally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 carked cark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cark** *in a quote* | past | Gossip | it | | | | the stubborn old goat *obl*; finally *property* | tree rules | 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 do you learn? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:2 # text = What do you learn? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Mick died, and the speaker is being rough about it ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:o1:1 # text = Mick died, and the speaker is being rough about it 1 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | Mick | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | present | the speaker | | | | | about it; rough *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Mick's goat died ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:o2:1 # text = Mick's goat died 1 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die 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 | **die** | past | Mick's goat | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 {#o3} Mick is very ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:o3:1 # text = Mick is very ill 1 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Mick | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Mick lost an argument ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t8:o4:1 # text = Mick lost an argument 1 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | Mick | a argument | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality | **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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