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Test 9 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

A girl believes her grandma died because she forgot to visit her. What should an adult tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, grandma, adult · What happens: believe, die, forget, not visit, tell · To what, where: grandma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A girl believes her grandma died because she forgot to visit her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believes	nsubj
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandma	nmod:poss
5	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believes	ccomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 forgot	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forgot	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 visit	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	a girl						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	past	girl's grandma						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	forget	past	grandma						tree rules
4	not visit	to-infinitive	grandma not said here	grandma					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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.

Sentence 2: What should an adult tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	a adult		grandma				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was partly her fault

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	5 fault	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	5 fault	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 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	is a	past	It	her fault				partly property	tree rules

Option 2

Not to talk about it ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 talk	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 talk	mark
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obl
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	to-infinitive					ever	about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was not her fault; nothing she thought or did made her grandma die

The tree, 14 words

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	5 fault	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fault	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 fault	appos
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 die	nmod:poss
14	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	compound
15	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	her fault					tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	fault						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	fault not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	her fault	fault's grandma die					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset die=Product

Option 4

She should visit others to make up for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 visit	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	aux
3	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 visit	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 make	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	should	She	others					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Co-Agent
2	make up	to-infinitive	She not said here					for it	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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