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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

A grave says "In memory of our dearly departed mother." Who is buried there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grave · What happens: say, depart, bury · To what, where: memory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 grave says "In memory of our dearly departed mother."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 memory	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	6 memory	case
6	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 mother	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
9	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
10	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 memory	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 memory	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 memory	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a grave	memory of our dearly departed mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent memory=Topic
2	depart in a quote	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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: Who is buried there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 buried	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	aux:pass
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 buried	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present · passive				there			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A mother who moved abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mother	acl:relcl
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	4 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	a mother					abroad property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A mother who left the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mother	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a mother	the family					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The family's dead mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 family	case
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A dear neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 neighbour	amod
3	neighbour	neighbour	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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