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Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

It is given that a commemorative inscription refers to "the fallen". Determine to whom the inscription refers.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: commemorative inscription, you, inscription · What happens: give, refer, fall, determine · To what, where: It · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a commemorative inscription refers to "the fallen".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 refers	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 inscription	det
6	commemorative	commemorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inscription	amod
7	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refers	nsubj
8	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	12 fallen	mark
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fallen	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fallen	det
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 refers	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fallen	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	refer	present	a commemorative inscription						tree rules
3	fall in a quote	participle	a commemorative inscription not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Determine to whom the inscription refers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 whom	case
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Determine	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inscription	det
5	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refers	nsubj
6	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 whom	acl:relcl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	refer	present	the inscription						vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Soldiers who deserted their posts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 deserted	nsubj
3	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Soldiers	acl:relcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 posts	nmod:poss
5	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deserted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desert	past	Soldiers	Soldiers's posts					vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme post=Source

Option 2

Soldiers wounded in war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wounded	nsubj
2	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound	past	Soldiers			war			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Soldiers killed in war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Soldiers	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	participle		Soldiers not said here		war			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Soldiers who returned home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Soldiers	acl:relcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Soldiers					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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