Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Adult life / Funerals and remembering / t6

Test 6 · ★ · Funerals and remembering

Your friend says, "Cremation hurts, that's why I'd rather be buried." What is wrong with this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Cremation, that · What happens: say, hurt, be, bury · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 friend says, "Cremation hurts, that's why I'd rather be buried."

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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hurts	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hurts	punct
6	Cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurts	nsubj
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 why	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 why	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 why	cop
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hurts	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 buried	nsubj:pass
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 buried	aux
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 buried	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 buried	aux:pass
16	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 why	advcl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hurts	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hurts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt in a quote	present	Cremation						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	that					why property	tree rules
4	bury in a quote	would · passive		Your friend = friend					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 is wrong with this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with this; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only children feel anything when cremated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 feel	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cremated	advmod
6	cremated	cremate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	children	anything					tree rules
2	cremate	participle	anything not said here						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A dead person cannot feel anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 feel	advmod
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 feel	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	can	a dead person	anything		all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

Nothing, cremation is very painful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cremation	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 painful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 painful	advmod
6	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cremation					painful property	tree rules

Option 4

Burial hurts much more than cremation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hurts	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 cremation	case
6	cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	Burial	more					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Patient

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/t6/