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title: Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart." What h… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart." What happened to Bill? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 24 «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · When someone dies

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Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart." What happened to Bill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, phone · **What happens:** lose, be, happen · **To what, where:** Bill, heart

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 24 «When someone dies» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:1
# text = Mum on the phone: "We lost Bill on Sunday, it was his heart."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | Mum on the phone | Bill |  |  | sunday |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | phone | Bill's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happened to Bill?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:2
# text = What happened to Bill?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  | Bill |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bill died on Sunday of a heart problem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:o1:1
# text = Bill died on Sunday of a heart problem
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Bill |  |  |  | sunday | of a heart problem | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of problem=Causer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bill lost a race because of a stitch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:o2:1
# text = Bill lost a race because of a stitch
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stitch	stitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Bill | a race |  |  |  | because a stitch | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bill lost his wallet with his heart-shaped key ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:o3:1
# text = Bill lost his wallet with his heart-shaped key ring
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Bill | Bill's wallet |  |  |  | with Bill's shaped key ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bill got lost on a walk on Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t2:o4:1
# text = Bill got lost on a walk on Sunday
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | Bill |  | a walk on Sunday |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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