Test 10 · ★ · Funerals and remembering
Dad: "No coffin at the memorial, just photos, his favourite songs and the funny stories." What kind of event is this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his, this · What happens: sing, be · To what, where: kind
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 25 «Funerals and remembering» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Dad: "No coffin at the memorial, just photos, his favourite songs and the funny stories."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 coffin | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coffin | punct |
| 4 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 coffin | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dad | appos |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 memorial | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 memorial | det |
| 8 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coffin | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 photos | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 photos | advmod |
| 11 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 coffin | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 songs | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 songs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 songs | amod |
| 15 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 photos | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stories | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stories | det |
| 18 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 photos | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 photos | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coffin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing in a quote | his = he | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: What kind of event is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 event | case |
| 4 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | what kind | of event | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A wake held at the local pub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wake | det |
| 2 | wake | wake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wake | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pub | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pub | det |
| 6 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pub | amod |
| 7 | pub | pub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | a wake not said here | the local pub | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pub=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A memorial service celebrating his life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 service | det |
| 2 | memorial | memorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 service | amod |
| 3 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | celebrating | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 service | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebrating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | gerund | a memorial service not said here | his life | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
Option 3
A funeral with a burial in the churchyard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 funeral | det |
| 2 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 burial | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 burial | det |
| 5 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 funeral | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 churchyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 churchyard | det |
| 8 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burial | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wedding for his younger brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wedding | nmod |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/t10/