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title: A press release: "The actor cancelled the tour due to exhaustion." W… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A press release: "The actor cancelled the tour due to exhaustion." What might a careful reader suspect? Test 5 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

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A press release: "The actor cancelled the tour due to exhaustion." What might a careful reader suspect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** press release · **What happens:** cancel · **To what, where:** tour

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This is test 5 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A press release: "The actor cancelled the tour due to exhaustion."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:1
# text = A press release: "The actor cancelled the tour due to exhaustion."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** *in a quote* | past | a press release | the tour |  |  |  | due exhaustion | 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 might a careful reader suspect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:2
# text = What might a careful reader suspect?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	suspect	suspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The weather was too hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:o1:1
# text = The weather was too hot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He wanted a longer holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:o2:1
# text = He wanted a longer holiday
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He | a longer holiday |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot holiday=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Trouble with drink or drugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:o3:1
# text = Trouble with drink or drugs
1	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The tickets did not sell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t5:o4:1
# text = The tickets did not sell
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sell** | past · do-support | the tickets |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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