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Test 6 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye

A week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone. How does this help?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: week, family, this · What happens: die, make, name, help · To what, where: little garden, stone

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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 week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 week	nmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Wellington	case
11	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 family	nmod
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 garden	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garden	amod
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 name	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 stone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 name	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	a week after their cat						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	make	present	a family in Wellington	a little garden				with family's name on a stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product
3	name		family			a stone			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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: How does this help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It brings the cat back

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	2 brings	nsubj
2	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 brings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	present	It		the cat				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cat=Destination

Option 2

It makes them forget about the cat much faster than doing nothing

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 faster	advmod
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 faster	advcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	them = they				fast property	tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	them = they not said here					about the cat	tree rules
3	do	gerund		nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It stops anyone from feeling sad again

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	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 stops	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 feeling	mark
5	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 anyone	acl
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 stops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	anyone			again		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anyone=Eventuality
2	feel	gerund						sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Remembering a pet helps the sadness slowly get smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pet	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remembering	obj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sadness	det
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	obj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	advcl
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund		a pet					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pet=Theme
2	help	present	Remembering	the sadness					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Beneficiary
3	get	present	Remembering not said here					slowly, small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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