Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
A police statement: "The suspect was neutralized at the scene." Which plain sentence matches?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: police statement · What happens: neutralize · To what, where: suspect, scene
This is test 11 · ★ 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 police statement: "The suspect was neutralized at the scene."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 statement | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 statement | compound |
| 3 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 neutralized | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 neutralized | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 suspect | det |
| 7 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neutralized | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 neutralized | aux:pass |
| 9 | neutralized | neutralize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 statement | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 scene | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scene | det |
| 12 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neutralized | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 statement | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 statement | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neutralize in a quote | past · passive | a police statement not said here | the suspect | the scene | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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: Which plain sentence matches?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 matches | nsubj |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 matches | amod |
| 3 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matches | compound |
| 4 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 matches | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The police killed the suspect there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 police | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suspect | det |
| 5 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 killed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the police | the suspect | there | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspect=Theme |
Option 2
The police arrested the suspect gently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 police | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrested | nsubj |
| 3 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suspect | det |
| 5 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrested | obj |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 arrested | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrest | past | the police | the suspect | gently property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspect=Patient |
Option 3
The suspect ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 suspect | det |
| 2 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | the suspect | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The suspect gave up and sat down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 suspect | det |
| 2 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sat | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the suspect | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the suspect not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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