--- title: News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town." What happened on Sunday? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town." What happened on Sunday? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** singer · **What happens:** pass away, bury, happen · **To what, where:** News, home town This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:1 # text = News: "The singer, who passed away on Sunday, will be buried in her home town." 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass away** *in a quote* | past | the singer | | | | sunday | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **bury** *in a quote* | future · passive | | News and the singer | | her home town | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in town=Destination | 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:* What happened on Sunday? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:2 # text = What happened on Sunday? 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 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | sunday | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The singer died ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:o1:1 # text = The singer died 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | the singer | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 2 {#o2} She fell ill on stage ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:o2:1 # text = She fell ill on stage 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | She | | | stage | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stage=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} The singer went back home ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:o3:1 # text = The singer went back home 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | the singer | | | | | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} The singer gave her last concert ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t1:o4:1 # text = The singer gave her last concert 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the singer | last concert | her *= she* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient concert=Theme | **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. 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