Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying
Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." Who will lie in the coffin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Funeral leaflet · What happens: choose, lie · To what, where: coffin
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funeral | funeral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 leaflet | amod |
| 2 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Choose | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Choose | punct |
| 5 | Choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaflet | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coffin | det |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Choose | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loved | loved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Choose | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | infinitive | Funeral leaflet not said here | a coffin | for your loved one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme for one=Beneficiary |
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: Who will lie in the coffin?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lie | aux |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 coffin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coffin | det |
| 6 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | future | the coffin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The child of the family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 child | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The funeral director
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 director | det |
| 2 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 director | compound |
| 3 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The dead person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The buyer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buyer | det |
| 2 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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