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title: A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread." What kind o… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread." What kind of remark is it? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

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A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread." What kind of remark is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Londoner · **What happens:** cross, be · **To what, where:** me, brown bread, kind

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:1
# text = A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Londoner	londoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | brown bread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:2
# text = What kind of remark is it?
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	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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 | Londoner | what kind |  |  |  | of remark | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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An offer of some fresh food from his kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:o1:1
# text = An offer of some fresh food from his kitchen
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** |  |  | some fresh food from his kitchen |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A threat to kill, in rhyming slang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:o2:1
# text = A threat to kill, in rhyming 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	rhyming	rhyme	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
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 |
| 2 | **rhyme** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A joke about a sunburn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:o3:1
# text = A joke about a sunburn
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	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A compliment about baking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t5:o4:1
# text = A compliment about baking
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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