Test 12 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

i wished he'd go away n then grandpa died, its my fault

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, he, grandpa, its · What happens: wish, not go away, die, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	ccomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	n	not	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 died	advmod
9	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fault	punct
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fault	nmod:poss
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fault	nmod:poss
14	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	i			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not go away	would	he		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	grandpa	then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fault		its = it			nom fault «act transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Maybe, if you wished it very hard and very often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 wished	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wished	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wished	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wished	nsubj
5	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wished	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wished	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 often	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	8 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	you	it				hard, maybe property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2

Yes, wishes can make bad things happen to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 happen	nsubj
8	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	wishes						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	happen	present	bad things					to people	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, so you must never wish anything bad ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wish	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wish	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wish	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 wish	advmod
7	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wish	obj
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 anything	amod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 wish	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 wish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	must	you	anything			ever; again		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, thoughts and wishes cannot make anyone die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wishes	cc
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thoughts	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 make	obj
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	thoughts and wishes	anyone					tree rules
2	not die	infinitive	anyone not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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