Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★

Which sentence tells you that someone died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence, someone · What happens: tell, die · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 died	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	which sentence		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	die	past	someone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ← Mova's choice

"Dad slipped away to make a quick phone call."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slipped	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 call	det
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 call	amod
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	compound
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip away in a quote	past	Dad					away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	Dad not said here	a quick phone call					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product

Option 2

"Dad slipped away early from the party."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 slipped	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip away in a quote	past	Dad					from the party; away, early property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from party=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"After a long illness, Dad slipped away."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	5 illness	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 illness	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illness	amod
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slipped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 illness	punct
7	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 slipped	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip away in a quote	past	Dad				after a long illness	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

"Dad slipped on the ice and laughed."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughed	cc
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip in a quote	past	Dad			the ice			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	laugh in a quote	past	Dad not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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