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title: Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die sudden… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too." What is true? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · When someone dies

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Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too." What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister, Uncle · **What happens:** worry, die, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:1
# text = Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worries	worry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | present | Your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Sudden deaths are rare in healthy people, and she can ask a grown-up

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:o1:1
# text = Sudden deaths are rare in healthy people, and she can ask a grown-up
1	Sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sudden deaths |  |  |  |  | in healthy people; rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | she | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She is right, sudden death runs in every family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:o2:1
# text = She is right, sudden death runs in every family
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | sudden death |  |  | every family |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Dad will certainly die soon too, because Uncle did and they are brothers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:o3:1
# text = Dad will certainly die soon too, because Uncle did and they are brothers
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | future | Dad |  |  |  |  | certainly, soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | they | brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody should ever talk about this with her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:24-when-someone-dies:t8:o4:1
# text = Nobody should ever talk about this with her
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | should | Nobody |  |  |  | ever | about this; with her *= she* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about this=Topic with she=Co-Agent |

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