Test 2 · ★★ · When someone dies
Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart." What happened to Bill?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, phone · What happens: lose, be, happen · To what, where: Bill, heart
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 24 «When someone dies» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 phone | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Sunday | case |
| 11 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heart | cop |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | past | Mum on the phone | Bill | sunday | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | phone | Bill's heart | tree rules |
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: What happened to Bill?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Bill | case |
| 4 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Bill | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Bill died on Sunday of a heart problem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Sunday | case |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 problem | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 problem | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 problem | compound |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Bill | sunday | of a heart problem | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of problem=Causer |
Option 2
Bill lost a race because of a stitch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 race | det |
| 4 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 stitch | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stitch | det |
| 8 | stitch | stitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Bill | a race | because a stitch | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Bill lost his wallet with his heart-shaped key ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ring | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaped | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 heart | punct |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ring | amod |
| 10 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ring | amod |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Bill | Bill's wallet | with Bill's shaped key ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4
Bill got lost on a walk on Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 walk | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 walk | det |
| 6 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Sunday | case |
| 8 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | Bill | a walk on Sunday | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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