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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

"He went west in 1917," says Grandad about his own grandad, a soldier. Where is that soldier now?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: He, Grandad, soldier · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: 1917 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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: "He went west in 1917," says Grandad about his own grandad, a soldier.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
4	west	west	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1917	case
6	1917	1917	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 grandad	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandad	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grandad	amod
14	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 soldier	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 soldier	det
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grandad	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	He			1917		west property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1917=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	Grandad					about Grandad's own grandad	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: Where is that soldier now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Where	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that soldier				now	where property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He moved to America in 1917

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 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 America	case
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1917	case
6	1917	1917	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	He		America	1917			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to america=Source in 1917=Trajectory

Option 2

He walked home in 1917

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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1917	case
5	1917	1917	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He			1917		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1917=Trajectory

Option 3

He lives in the west

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 west	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 west	det
5	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	He			the west			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in west=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He died in 1917

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	in	in	ADP	_	4 1917	case
4	1917	1917	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					in 1917	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1917=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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