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title: Which phrase is the respectful way to talk about autism? — Soft words for hard things: illness, d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which phrase is the respectful way to talk about autism? Test 12 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

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Which phrase is the respectful way to talk about autism?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phrase · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** respectful way

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t12:1
# text = Which phrase is the respectful way to talk about autism?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	autism	autism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which phrase | the respectful way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about autism | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about autism=Topic |

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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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Laid up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t12:o1:1
# text = Laid up
1	Laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lost his marbles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t12:o2:1
# text = Lost his marbles
1	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  | his marbles |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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On the spectrum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t12:o3:1
# text = On the spectrum
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spectrum	spectrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fond of a drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t12:o4:1
# text = Fond of a drink
1	Fond	fond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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