Test 18 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

apparently some kids were giggling at a funeral and the family's still upset like years later. what's the real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: giggle, be · To what, where: funeral, real lesson

This is test 18 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	5 giggling	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giggling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giggling	aux
5	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lesson	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giggling	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 upset	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 family	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 upset	nsubj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 family	case
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 upset	advmod
14	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giggling	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 later	obl:unmarked
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 upset	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 giggling	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 lesson	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lesson	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lesson	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 lesson	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	past · progressive	some kids			a funeral		apparently property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the real lesson					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Stay quiet at funerals; noise can hurt grieving people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 funerals	case
4	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stay	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	conj
9	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hurt	xcomp
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grieving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		funerals	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location
2	hurt	can	noise				tree rules
3	grieve	gerund	noise not said here	people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2

Only adults need to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 quiet	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	adults						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	adults not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

Families forget it straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forget	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Families	it				away property	tree rules

Option 4

Funerals are fine to joke at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 joke	mark
5	joke	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 joke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Funerals					fine property	tree rules
2	joke speech: other	to-infinitive							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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