--- title: Gossip: "Uncle Jim? Snuffed it last year, God rest him." What do you… — Soft words for hard things: death and… · tree and pragmatics description: Gossip: "Uncle Jim? Snuffed it last year, God rest him." What do you learn? 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What do you learn? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** God, you · **What happens:** snuff, rest, learn · **To what, where:** Gossip, Jim This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gossip: "Uncle Jim? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:1 # text = Gossip: "Uncle Jim? 1 Gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* Snuffed it last year, God rest him." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:2 # text = Snuffed it last year, God rest him." 1 Snuffed snuff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snuff** | past | | Gossip | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **rest** | infinitive | God | Jim | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | *Sentence 3:* What do you learn? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:3 # text = What do you learn? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Uncle Jim moved last year ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:o1:1 # text = Uncle Jim moved last year 1 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past | Uncle | | | | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Uncle Jim died last year ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:o2:1 # text = Uncle Jim died last year 1 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | Uncle | | | | year | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 {#o3} Uncle Jim stopped smoking last year ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:o3:1 # text = Uncle Jim stopped smoking last year 1 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 smoking smoke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | Uncle | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **smoke** | gerund | Uncle *not said here* | | | | year | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Uncle Jim caught a cold last year ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:3-death-and-feeling-poorly:t7:o4:1 # text = Uncle Jim caught a cold last year 1 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | Uncle | | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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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