--- title: Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." Who will lie… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." Who will lie in the coffin? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wro --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." Who will lie in the coffin? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Funeral leaflet · **What happens:** choose, lie · **To what, where:** coffin This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:1 # text = Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." 1 Funeral funeral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 leaflet leaflet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 loved loved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive | Funeral leaflet *not said here* | a coffin | | | | for your loved one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme for one=Beneficiary | 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:* Who will lie in the coffin? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:2 # text = Who will lie in the coffin? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | future | | | | the coffin | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The child of the family ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:o1:1 # text = The child of the family 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The funeral director ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:o2:1 # text = The funeral director 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 director director NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The dead person ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:o3:1 # text = The dead person 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The buyer ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:2-death-official-and-slang:t9:o4:1 # text = The buyer 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 buyer buyer 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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