Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
News: "Two people were injured in the crash. One later succumbed in hospital." How many people died?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many people · What happens: injure, succumb, die · To what, where: Two people, crash
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «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: News: "Two people were injured in the crash.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 injured | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 injured | punct |
| 4 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 people | nummod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 injured | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 injured | aux:pass |
| 7 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 News | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 crash | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crash | det |
| 10 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 injured | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | injure in a quote | past · passive | Two people | the crash | tree rules |
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: One later succumbed in hospital."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hospital | nummod |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 succumbed | advmod |
| 3 | succumbed | succumb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hospital | amod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hospital | case |
| 5 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hospital | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hospital | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succumb | participle | late property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many people died?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | many people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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