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Test 4 · ★★ · When a parent has died

«crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst». What could help most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap, i, Mum · What happens: not remember, be, laugh, help · To what, where: laugh

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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: «crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
2	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remember	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 remember	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 remember	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 remember	advmod
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 laugh	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Mum	case
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remember	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worst	punct
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 worst	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 worst	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 worst	det
15	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 remember	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 worst	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remember in a quote	can	crap	Mum's laugh					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	i					bad property	tree rules
3	laugh in a quote		Mum						nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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 could help most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Pretending you remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretending	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	remember	present	you						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Telling no one about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		no one				about it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3

Trying never to think of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 think	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 think	mark
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive						of her = she	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Videos, photos and family stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 photos	punct
3	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Videos	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stories	cc
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stories	compound
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Videos	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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