--- title: A plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last."… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: A plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last." What is under the plaque? 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What is under the plaque? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plaque · **What happens:** read, lie, be · **To what, where:** Captain Grey, plaque This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:1 # text = A plaque in a park reads "Here lies Captain Grey, at rest at last." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | a plaque in a park | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | a plaque in a park *not said here* | Captain Grey | | here | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grey=Theme | 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 is under the plaque? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:2 # text = What is under the plaque? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 under under ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | the plaque | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A bench for Captain Grey ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:o1:1 # text = A bench for Captain Grey 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Captain Grey's old boat ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:o2:1 # text = Captain Grey's old boat 1 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Captain Grey's bed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:o3:1 # text = Captain Grey's bed 1 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Captain Grey's grave ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:1-death-polite-and-joking:t9:o4:1 # text = Captain Grey's grave 1 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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