Test 15 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

grandad died, i don't wanna talk about it ever

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, i · What happens: die, not talk

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 talk	advmod
7	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 talk	dep
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 died	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	grandad						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not talk	present · do-support	i				ever	about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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

Only talk to your pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 pet	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pet	nmod:poss
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					to your pet	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pet=Co-Agent

Option 2

Pretend it didn't happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not happen	past · do-support	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Never talk, it makes it worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 talk	advmod
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	it	it				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's okay to wait, but talking with someone you trust helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 okay	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 okay	cop
3	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wait	mark
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 okay	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helps	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 helps	cc
8	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 helps	csubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 talking	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 trust	nsubj
12	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 someone	acl:relcl
13	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 okay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	okay property	tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	gerund		with someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent
4	trust	present	you		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	help	present	talking		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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