--- title: Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." Wh… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." Why is the speaker staying in? 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Why is the speaker staying in? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, Chatty weather, speaker · **What happens:** be, stay in · **To what, where:** Chatty weather This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:1 # text = Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." 1 Chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 School school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 staying stay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 16 in in ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | the Chatty weather | | anyway *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stay in** *in a quote* | gerund | the Chatty weather *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:* Why is the speaker staying in? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:2 # text = Why is the speaker staying in? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay in** | present · progressive | the speaker | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} They are scared of storms ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:o1:1 # text = They are scared of storms 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | They | | | | | of storms; scared *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} They feel a bit ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:o2:1 # text = They feel a bit ill 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | They | | | | | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 3 {#o3} They are being punished ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:o3:1 # text = They are being punished 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **punish** | present · passive | | They | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} It is raining ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t2:o4:1 # text = It is raining 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 raining rain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rain** | present · progressive | It | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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