Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…
Gossip: "Uncle Jim? Snuffed it last year, God rest him." What do you learn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: God, you · What happens: snuff, rest, learn · To what, where: Gossip, Jim
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Uncle Jim?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jim | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jim | punct |
| 4 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jim | compound |
| 5 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gossip | vocative |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gossip | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Snuffed it last year, God rest him."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snuffed | snuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Snuffed | obj |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snuffed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rest | punct |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | nsubj |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Snuffed | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rest | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snuffed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snuffed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snuff | past | Gossip | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | God | Jim | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
Sentence 3: What do you learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 learn | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · do-support | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Uncle Jim moved last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Uncle | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Uncle Jim died last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 2 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Uncle | year | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
Uncle Jim stopped smoking last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | smoking | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smoking | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Uncle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | smoke | gerund | Uncle not said here | year | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Uncle Jim caught a cold last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Uncle | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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