Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
A plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last." What is under the plaque?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plaque · What happens: read, lie, be · To what, where: Captain Grey, plaque
This is test 9 · ★ 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 plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plaque | det |
| 2 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 park | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 park | det |
| 5 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plaque | nmod |
| 6 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lies | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lies | advmod |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reads | conj |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Grey | compound |
| 11 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rest | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 rest | case |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rest | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reads | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a plaque in a park | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | a plaque in a park not said here | Captain Grey | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grey=Theme |
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 is under the plaque?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 plaque | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plaque | cop |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 plaque | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plaque | det |
| 5 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaque | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the plaque | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A bench for Captain Grey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bench | det |
| 2 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Grey | case |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Grey | compound |
| 5 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bench | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Captain Grey's old boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Grey | compound |
| 2 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Grey | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Captain Grey's bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Grey | compound |
| 2 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Grey | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Captain Grey's grave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Grey | compound |
| 2 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grave | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Grey | case |
| 4 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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