Test 7 · ★★ · When someone dies
A boy at school says, "My dad died in a crash, no warning, nothing." What kind of death was it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: say, die, be · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A boy at school says, "My dad died in a crash, no warning, nothing."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 crash | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crash | det |
| 13 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warning | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 warning | det |
| 16 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crash | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 crash | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy at school | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | past | My dad | in a crash and no warning | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crash=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: What kind of death was it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 death | case |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | death | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A death in a hospice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 death | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hospice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hospice | det |
| 5 | hospice | hospice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 death | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An expected death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 2 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 death | amod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A sudden death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 death | amod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A peaceful death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 2 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 death | amod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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