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description: News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza." What happened? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

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News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza." What happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** News · **What happens:** meet, happen · **To what, where:** untimely end, Monza

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:1
# text = News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza."
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	untimely	untimely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Monza	Monza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | News | a untimely end |  | Monza |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Co-Agent |

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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 happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:2
# text = What happened?
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The driver came late to Monza

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:o1:1
# text = The driver came late to Monza
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Monza	Monza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the driver |  |  | Monza |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to monza=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The driver finished last at Monza

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:o2:1
# text = The driver finished last at Monza
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	last	last	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Monza	Monza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | the driver |  |  | Monza |  | last *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The driver retired at Monza

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:o3:1
# text = The driver retired at Monza
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Monza	Monza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | past | the driver |  |  | Monza |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The young driver died at Monza

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t1:o4:1
# text = The young driver died at Monza
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Monza	Monza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the young driver |  |  | Monza |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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