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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town." What happened on Sunday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: singer · What happens: pass away, bury, happen · To what, where: News, home town

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 buried	nsubj:pass
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 News	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 passed	nsubj
8	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singer	acl:relcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 passed	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Sunday	case
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 buried	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 buried	aux:pass
15	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 town	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 town	nmod:poss
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 town	compound
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 buried	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 buried	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away in a quote	past	the singer				sunday	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	bury in a quote	future · passive		News and the singer		her home town			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in town=Destination

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 on Sunday?

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	on	on	ADP	_	4 Sunday	case
4	Sunday	Sunday	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					sunday		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The singer died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singer	det
2	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the singer						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

She fell ill on stage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 stage	case
5	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She			stage		ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stage=Location

Option 3

The singer went back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singer	det
2	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the singer					home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The singer gave her last concert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singer	det
2	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 concert	amod
6	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the singer	last concert	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient concert=Theme

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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