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title: News: "Three people were hurt. One is in a comfortable condition." W… — Soft words for hard things: illness, d… · tree and pragmatics
description: News: "Three people were hurt. One is in a comfortable condition." What is true of that person? Test 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 question and of each
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

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News: "Three people were hurt. One is in a comfortable condition." What is true of that person?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** One · **What happens:** hurt, be · **To what, where:** Three people, comfortable condition

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 5 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability 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/5-drink-mind-and-body/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* News: "Three people were hurt.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:1
# text = News: "Three people were hurt.
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Three people |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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*Sentence 2:* One is in a comfortable condition."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:2
# text = One is in a comfortable condition."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | One |  |  | a comfortable condition |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What is true of that person?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:3
# text = What is true of that person?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of that person; true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Not hurt at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:o1:1
# text = Not hurt at all
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hurt** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sitting in a soft bed reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:o2:1
# text = Sitting in a soft bed reading
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | a soft bed reading |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reading=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Already at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:o3:1
# text = Already at home
1	Already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Seriously hurt but stable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t1:o4:1
# text = Seriously hurt but stable
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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