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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

Tom: "Grandpa says when he goes to meet his maker I get his watch." When will Tom get the watch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandpa, I, Tom · What happens: say, go, meet, get · To what, where: Tom, maker, watch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Tom: "Grandpa says when he goes to meet his maker I get his watch."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tom	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 goes	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meet	mark
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 goes	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 maker	nmod:poss
12	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meet	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 maker	acl:relcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 watch	nmod:poss
16	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tom	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Grandpa	Tom not said here					tree rules
2	go in a quote	present	Grandpa						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	Grandpa not said here	Grandpa's maker					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maker=Co-Agent
4	get in a quote	present	I	Grandpa's watch					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer watch=Stimulus

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: When will Tom get the watch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	Tom	the watch					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer watch=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

When Grandpa visits his own dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 visits	advmod
2	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 visits	nsubj
3	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dad	amod
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Grandpa	Grandpa's own dad					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Co-Agent

Option 2

When it is made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

When Grandpa finishes making it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 finishes	advmod
2	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 finishes	nsubj
3	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 finishes	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present	Grandpa						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	Grandpa not said here	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

When Grandpa dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 dies	mark
2	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

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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