Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
At a funeral, which would hurt the family most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hurt · To what, where: family, funeral
This is test 3 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 funeral | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 funeral | det |
| 3 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurt | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurt | obj |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 hurt | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | would | the family | a funeral | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Patient |
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.
The options
Option 1
"Sorry for your loss"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
| 2 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 loss | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 loss | nmod:poss |
| 5 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sorry | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
"Sorry he is no longer with us"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
| 2 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 longer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 longer | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 Sorry | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 longer | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | he | with us; long property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Sorry he kicked the bucket"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
| 2 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 4 kicked | discourse |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kicked | nsubj |
| 4 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bucket | det |
| 6 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kicked | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick in a quote | past | he | the bucket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient |
Option 4
"Sorry he passed away"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 2 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 4 passed | discourse |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away in a quote | past | he | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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