Test 15 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

Why did the family feel hurt when children laughed at the funeral?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, children · What happens: feel, hurt, laugh · To what, where: funeral

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feel	xcomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 laughed	mark
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laughed	nsubj
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 funeral	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 funeral	det
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the family		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	participle	the family not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	laugh	past	children	the funeral	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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

They wanted to tell jokes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	jokes					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

Option 2

They thought the jokes were bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jokes	det
4	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bad	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the jokes					bad property	tree rules

Option 3

Funerals must be silent forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 silent	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 silent	cop
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 silent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Funerals					forever, silent property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were grieving and it felt like nobody cared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grieving	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieving	aux
3	grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 felt	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieving	conj
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 cared	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 cared	nsubj
9	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	grieve	past · progressive	They	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	feel	past	it	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	care	past	nobody	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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