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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying

A doctor tells a family "I'm so sorry, she didn't make it." What should the family understand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, family · What happens: tell, be, not make, understand · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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 doctor tells a family "I'm so sorry, she didn't make it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sorry	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sorry	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sorry	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sorry	advmod
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tells	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 make	advmod
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sorry	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sorry	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a doctor	a family					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	a doctor = doctor					sorry property	tree rules
3	not make in a quote	past · do-support	doctor	family					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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 should the family understand?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 understand	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	nsubj
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	should	the family						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She missed her appointment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 appointment	nmod:poss
4	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	She	her appointment					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appointment=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She has died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 died	aux
3	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	She						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

She failed her operation test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 test	nmod:poss
4	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 test	compound
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 failed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	She	her operation test					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality
2	test		her = she						nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She is asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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