--- title: News: "Two people were injured in the crash. One later succumbed in… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: News: "Two people were injured in the crash. One later succumbed in hospital." How many people died? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «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; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/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/2-death-official-and-slang/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying News: "Two people were injured in the crash. One later succumbed in hospital." How many people died? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many people · **What happens:** injure, succumb, die · **To what, where:** Two people, crash This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «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/2-death-official-and-slang/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* News: "Two people were injured in the crash. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:1 # text = News: "Two people were injured in the crash. 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 injured injure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **injure** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Two people | | the crash | | | tree rules | 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:* One later succumbed in hospital." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:2 # text = One later succumbed in hospital." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 2 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 3 succumbed succumb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **succumb** | participle | | | | | | late *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* How many people died? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:3 # text = How many people died? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | many people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} None ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:o2:1 # text = None 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} One ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:o3:1 # text = One 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t1:o4:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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