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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

A neighbour says "We lost our dad in the spring." What should you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour, We, you · What happens: say, lose · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: A neighbour says "We lost our dad in the spring."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 spring	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spring	det
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a neighbour						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose in a quote	past	We	our dad			spring		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality

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 should you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"Did you find him?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past · do-support	you	him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"I'm so sorry he died"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sorry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sorry	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sorry	advmod
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					sorry property	tree rules
2	die in a quote	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

"Was he lost in the park?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past · passive		he		the park			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

"Where did you lose him?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 lose	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past · do-support	you	him = he					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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