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title: A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life o… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday." What is happening? Test 6 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t…

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A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday." What is happening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mr Lee · **What happens:** invite, celebrate, happen · **To what, where:** life

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:1
# text = A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** *in a quote* |  | Mr Lee |  |  |  |  |  | nom invite «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 2 | **celebrate** *in a quote* |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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 is happening?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:2
# text = What is happening?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mr Lee's birthday party

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:o1:1
# text = Mr Lee's birthday party
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mr Lee's wedding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:o2:1
# text = Mr Lee's wedding
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wed** |  | Mr Lee |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A memorial for Mr Lee, who has died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:o3:1
# text = A memorial for Mr Lee, who has died
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present · perfect | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mr Lee's retirement party

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t6:o4:1
# text = Mr Lee's retirement party
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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