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Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

It is given that a hospital record states that a patient "expired". Ascertain what occurred.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hospital record, you · What happens: give, state, ascertain, occur · To what, where: It, patient

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a hospital record states that a patient "expired".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 states	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 record	det
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 record	compound
7	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 states	nsubj
8	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 patient	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 patient	det
11	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 states	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 expired	punct
13	expired	expired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patient	amod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 expired	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	state speech: other	present	a hospital record	a patient					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent patient=Topic

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: Ascertain what occurred.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 occurred	nsubj
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	occur	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The patient's registration lapsed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 registration	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 patient	case
4	registration	registration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lapsed	nsubj
5	lapsed	lapse	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	lapse	past	the patient's registration						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	register		the patient						nom registration «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The patient left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 patient	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the patient not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The patient died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	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	the patient						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

The patient exhaled deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exhaled	nsubj
3	exhaled	exhale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 exhaled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhale	past	the patient					deeply property	vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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