--- title: "I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own… — Soft words for hard things: religion a… · tree and pragmatics description: "I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own bakery." How did losing the job turn out? 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How did losing the job turn out? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, job, my · **What happens:** lose, be, run, job, turn out · **To what, where:** job, blessing, disguise, own bakery This is test 7 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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/32-religion-fate-failure/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own bakery." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:1 # text = "I lost my job, but it was a blessing in disguise — now I run my own bakery." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 — - PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bakery bakery NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | I | my job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | job | a blessing | | disguise | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run** *in a quote* | present | I | my own bakery | | | now | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bakery=Trajectory | | 4 | **job** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:* How did losing the job turn out? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:2 # text = How did losing the job turn out? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past · do-support | | the job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **turn out** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Badly forever ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:o1:1 # text = Badly forever 1 Badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 forever forever ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Well in the end ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:o2:1 # text = Well in the end 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nobody knows yet ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:o3:1 # text = Nobody knows yet 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 yet yet ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Nobody | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} It was all a disguise ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t7:o4:1 # text = It was all a disguise 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | It | all disguise | | | | | tree rules | **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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