Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…
News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza." What happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: News · What happens: meet, happen · To what, where: untimely end, Monza
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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: News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 driver | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 driver | amod |
| 6 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driver | compound |
| 7 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 10 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 end | amod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Monza | case |
| 13 | Monza | Monza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | past | News | a untimely end | Monza | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Co-Agent |
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 happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The driver came late to Monza
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Monza | case |
| 6 | Monza | Monza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the driver | Monza | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to monza=Initial_Location |
Option 2
The driver finished last at Monza
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | last | last | ADV | _ | 3 finished | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Monza | case |
| 6 | Monza | Monza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | the driver | Monza | last property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
The driver retired at Monza
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | nsubj |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Monza | case |
| 5 | Monza | Monza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | the driver | Monza | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The young driver died at Monza
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 driver | amod |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Monza | case |
| 6 | Monza | Monza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the young driver | Monza | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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