--- title: An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout." Where is Father? — Soft words for hard things: illness, d… · tree and pragmatics description: An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout." Where is Father? 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Where is Father? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** lay up, be · **To what, where:** Father This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:1 # text = An old letter: "Father is laid up with gout." 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 gout gout NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay up** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Father | | | | with gout | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:* Where is Father? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:2 # text = Where is Father? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Father | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Stuck in bed, ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:o1:1 # text = Stuck in bed, ill 1 Stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Lying in the garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:o2:1 # text = Lying in the garden 1 Lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | the garden | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} At work on a farm ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:o3:1 # text = At work on a farm 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} At the doctor's shop ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t11:o4:1 # text = At the doctor's shop 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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