Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

Select the response that is consistent with the established meaning of "succumbed to his injuries" in a press report.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, his · What happens: select, be, establish, succumb, mean, injure · To what, where: response, succumbed injuries, press report

This is exam question 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 meaning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meaning	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 meaning	amod
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 injuries	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 injuries	punct
13	succumbed	succumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 injuries	amod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 injuries	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 injuries	nmod:poss
16	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 meaning	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 injuries	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 report	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 report	det
20	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 report	compound
21	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 injuries	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established meaning of his succumbed injuries in a press report; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	succumb in a quote	participle					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean			his succumbed injuries in a press report			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	injure in a quote		his = he		a press report		nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He died as a consequence of his injuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 consequence	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 injuries	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 injuries	nmod:poss
8	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consequence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					as a consequence of his injuries	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	injure		his = he						nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He declined medical treatment for his injuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declined	nsubj
2	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 treatment	amod
4	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declined	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 injuries	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 injuries	nmod:poss
7	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 declined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	He	medical treatment				for his injuries	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme
2	injure		his = he						nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He recovered fully from his injuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recovered	nsubj
2	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	2 recovered	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 injuries	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 injuries	nmod:poss
6	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past	He			his injuries		fully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from injury=Source
2	injure		his = he						nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He sustained further injuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sustained	nsubj
2	sustained	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 injuries	amod
4	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sustained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sustain	past	He	further injuries					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent injury=Theme

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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