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Test 6 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

Your hamster dies, and the next day your parents offer a new one. You still feel sad. What is a good choice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hamster, parents, You · What happens: die, offer, feel, be · To what, where: new one, good choice

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your hamster dies, and the next day your parents offer a new one.

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 hamster	nmod:poss
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offer	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 offer	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	obl:unmarked
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 offer	nsubj
11	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dies	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Your hamster						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	offer	present	your parents	a new one			day		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=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: You still feel sad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 feel	advmod
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	You				still	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What is a good choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 choice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 choice	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good choice					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Pretend you are not sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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 is	present	you					sad property	tree rules

Option 2

Accept, since the new one replaces the old one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replaces	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 replaces	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaces	nsubj
7	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Accept	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaces	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	imperative	you not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	replace	present	the new one	the old one					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say you want to wait a while and talk about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wait	mark
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talk	cc
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	infinitive	you not said here					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

Refuse ever to talk about the hamster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 talk	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 talk	mark
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 hamster	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hamster	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive	Refuse				ever	about the hamster	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hamster=Topic

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