Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
Mia: "my goldfish croaked lol, flushing him tonight." Is Mia sad about a real person?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: croak, flush, be · To what, where: Mia, goldfish
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Mia: "my goldfish croaked lol, flushing him tonight."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 croaked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 croaked | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 croaked | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 croaked | nsubj |
| 6 | croaked | croak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 croaked | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flushing | punct |
| 9 | flushing | flush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 croaked | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flushing | obj |
| 11 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flushing | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 croaked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 croaked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak in a quote | participle · passive | Mia | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flush in a quote | gerund | goldfish | tonight | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source |
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: Is Mia sad about a real person?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sad | cop |
| 2 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sad | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mia | about a real person; sad property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, a person in her family died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 person | nmod |
| 8 | 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 | a person in person's family | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
Yes, her fish is sick but alive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | cop |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 alive | cc |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sick | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | her fish | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | her fish not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
No, her fish is making noises
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | her fish | noises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, she is joking roughly about her dead fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 joking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 joking | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 joking | aux |
| 5 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 5 joking | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 fish | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fish | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fish | amod |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | she | about her dead fish; roughly property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fish=Topic |
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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