Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…
A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday." What is happening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr Lee · What happens: invite, celebrate, happen · To what, where: life
This is test 6 · ★ 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: A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 notice | det |
| 2 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 5 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lee | compound |
| 6 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 invite | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lee | case |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invite | compound |
| 9 | invite | invite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | compound |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 notice | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 celebration | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 celebration | det |
| 13 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 celebration | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Saturday | case |
| 17 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 notice | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 notice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite in a quote | Mr Lee | nom invite «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 2 | celebrate in a quote | life | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient |
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 is happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happening | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happening | aux |
| 3 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happening | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mr Lee's birthday party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lee | compound |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 party | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lee | case |
| 4 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | compound |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mr Lee's wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lee | compound |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lee | case |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | Mr Lee | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A memorial for Mr Lee, who has died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 memorial | det |
| 2 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Mr | case |
| 4 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 memorial | nmod |
| 5 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mr | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 died | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | aux |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Mr | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · perfect | Mr | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
Mr Lee's retirement party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lee | compound |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 party | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lee | case |
| 4 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | compound |
| 5 | party | party | 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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