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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

A milk carton says "expired 3 May". What is the difference from "the patient expired"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: milk carton · What happens: say, expire, be · To what, where: difference, expired · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: A milk carton says "expired 3 May".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carton	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carton	compound
3	carton	carton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 expired	punct
6	expired	expire	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 May	nummod
8	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 expired	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 expired	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a milk carton						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	expire in a quote	past					may		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 the difference from "the patient expired"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 difference	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difference	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 expired	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 expired	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 patient	det
8	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expired	nsubj
9	expired	expired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 difference	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 expired	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 difference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the difference		expired			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The milk went off, but 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 milk	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 died	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 patient	det
8	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the milk						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	the patient						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The milk died, but the patient went off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 milk	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 patient	det
7	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the milk						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go off	past	the patient						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Both mean something went off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go off	past	something						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Both mean something died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	something						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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