Test 13 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

i wished my grandad would go away and now he's died, my fault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, grandad, my · What happens: wish, go away, die, fault · To what, where: grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Family changes and grief» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandad	nmod:poss
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 died	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 died	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 died	aux:pass
12	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wished	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fault	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fault	nmod:poss
15	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	i				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go away	would	my grandad			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present · passive		grandad	now		tree rules
4	fault		my				nom fault «act transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, partly your fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fault	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	5 fault	advmod
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fault		your						nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only if you said it out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 said	compound:prt
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say out speech: assert	past	you	it				loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Yes, wishes can come true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	can	wishes					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, wishes can't make someone die; it's never your fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wishes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wishes	punct
3	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wishes	ccomp
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 make	obj
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fault	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fault	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fault	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 fault	advmod
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fault	nmod:poss
14	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wishes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wish	present			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not make	can		someone	tree rules
3	not die	infinitive	someone not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not is a	present	it	your fault	tree rules

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