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Test 3 · ★ · Funerals and remembering

Your cousin whispers, "Everyone's laughing at the wake, they don't even care." How do you put him right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Everyone, they, you · What happens: whisper, laugh, not care, put · To what, where: wake, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Your cousin whispers, "Everyone's laughing at the wake, they don't even care."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whispers	nsubj
3	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laughing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 laughing	punct
6	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 laughing	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laughing	aux
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 whispers	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 wake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wake	det
11	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 care	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 care	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 care	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 care	advmod
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 care	advmod
17	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 whispers	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whispers	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 whispers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh in a quote	present · progressive	Everyone			the wake			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not care in a quote	present · do-support	they						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: How do you put him right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · do-support	you		cousin			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

They are laughing because the funeral is over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 over	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 over	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 over	cop
8	over	over	ADV	_	3 laughing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the funeral					over property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sharing happy stories is a way of remembering, not a sign they don't care

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	csubj
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sharing	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 remembering	mark
8	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sign	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sign	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	parataxis
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 care	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 care	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 care	advmod
16	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sign	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		happy stories					tree rules
2	is a	present	Sharing	a way					tree rules
3	remember	gerund	a way not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	not care	present · do-support	stories = story	a sign not said here					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, laughing means nobody is sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughing	punct
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 right	advcl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 sad	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	He not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	nobody					sad property	tree rules

Option 4

Grown-ups are not allowed to be sad at a wake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 sad	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sad	cop
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 allowed	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wake	det
12	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not allow	present · passive		Grown ups					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here			a wake		sad property	tree rules

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