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description: Identify the plain meaning of the expression "in a comfortable condition" as employed in a hospital bulletin. Exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

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Identify the plain meaning of the expression "in a comfortable condition" as employed in a hospital bulletin.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ, mean · **To what, where:** plain meaning, comfortable condition, hospital bulletin, expression

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/5-drink-mind-and-body/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:e1:1
# text = Identify the plain meaning of the expression "in a comfortable condition" as employed in a hospital bulletin.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bulletin	bulletin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the plain meaning of the expression |  | a comfortable condition |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | a hospital bulletin |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** |  |  | the expression |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ready for discharge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:e1:o1:1
# text = Ready for discharge
1	Ready	ready	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	discharge	discharge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Seriously ill but stable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:e1:o2:1
# text = Seriously ill but stable
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fully recovered and content

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:e1:o3:1
# text = Fully recovered and content
1	Fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past |  | content |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Resting upon soft furnishings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:e1:o4:1
# text = Resting upon soft furnishings
1	Resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	furnishings	furnishings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  | soft furnishings |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon furnishings=Location |

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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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