Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Everyday / When a parent has died / t8

Test 8 · ★★ · When a parent has died

Kwame's mate says «sorry for ur loss bro» for the tenth time. Why do people keep saying it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, people · What happens: say, keep · To what, where: sorry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Kwame's mate says «sorry for ur loss bro» for the tenth time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kwame	Kwame	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kwame	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 sorry	punct
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 bro	case
8	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bro	nmod:poss
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bro	compound
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorry	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 sorry	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorry	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kwame's mate	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic

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: Why do people keep saying it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	people						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	people not said here	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1

It's the only thing people are allowed to say

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 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thing	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the only thing					tree rules
2	allow	present · passive	the only thing not said here	people					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are trying to make Kwame feel even worse

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 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	Kwame	Kwame	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 worse	advmod
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	They						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	Kwame					tree rules
3	feel not said to happen	infinitive	Kwame not said here					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Teachers make them say it every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Teachers	them = they					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	them = they not said here	it			morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They mean well and don't know what else to say

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 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 mean	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 know	cc
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mean	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	They					well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not know	infinitive · do-support	They not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/t8/