Exam question 4 · When someone dies
It is given that a woman's husband has died. Ascertain the term by which she is thereafter designated.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband, you, term · What happens: give, die, ascertain, designate · To what, where: It, term, woman
This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «When someone dies» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: It is given that a woman's husband has died.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | aux |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | a woman's husband | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: Ascertain the term by which she is thereafter designated.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 designated | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 designated | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 designated | aux:pass |
| 8 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 9 designated | advmod |
| 9 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 term | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the term | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic | ||||
| 2 | designate | present · passive | the term | woman | thereafter property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A widow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 widow | det |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A spinster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spinster | det |
| 2 | spinster | spinster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A guardian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 guardian | det |
| 2 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A widower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 widower | det |
| 2 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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