Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

Which phrase about death would you use in a polite speech, not a joke?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: use · To what, where: polite speech

This is test 12 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 phrase	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 speech	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 speech	det
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speech	amod
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joke	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 joke	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speech	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	which phrase about death			a polite speech and a joke			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Made the ultimate sacrifice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sacrifice	det
3	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sacrifice	amod
4	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the ultimate sacrifice					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sacrifice=Product

Option 2

Assumed room temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Assumed	assume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 temperature	amod
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	compound
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assume	participle							vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Gone to the big sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sleep	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle				the big sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

Option 4

Pushing up the daisies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pushing	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daisies	det
4	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	gerund		the daisies					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daisy=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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