Exam question 4 · When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies

Ascertain the meaning of the expression «gone to a better place» as employed in respect of a deceased pet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, go, employ, decease, respect · To what, where: meaning, better place, respect, deceased pet

This is exam question 4 of lesson 55 «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 expression	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 expression	det
6	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meaning	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 place	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 employed	mark
15	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gone	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 respect	case
17	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 employed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 pet	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pet	det
20	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pet	amod
21	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 respect	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	go in a quote	participle		the meaning not said here	a better place	of the expression	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of expression=Initial_Location to place=Destination
3	employ	participle			respect of a deceased pet		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	decease	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	respect			a deceased pet			nom respect «cognition 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That the animal has escaped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 animal	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escaped	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 escaped	aux
5	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	present · perfect · passive		that animal					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location

Option 2

That the animal has been rehomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 animal	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rehomed	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rehomed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rehomed	aux:pass
6	rehomed	rehom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rehom	present · perfect · passive		that animal					tree rules

Option 3

That the animal has been sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 animal	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sold	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sold	aux:pass
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · perfect · passive		that animal					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That the animal has died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 animal	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	that animal						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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