Test 13 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

laughed at a joke a week after nanna died, is that bad

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nanna · What happens: laugh, die, be · To what, where: joke

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 joke	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 laughed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 laughed	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 died	mark
8	nanna	nanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bad	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 died	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bad	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 bad	mark
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 laughed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past		a joke	week		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	nanna				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present				bad property	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

Yes, laughing means you did not love her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 love	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 love	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 love	advmod
8	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	gerund			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	laughing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not love	past · do-support	you	her = she	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, grief comes and goes, fun is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 goes	cc
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	present	grief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	grief not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	fun	fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, you must stay sad for a whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	must	you				year	sad property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, say sorry to the whole family for laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 family	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorry	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 laughing	mark
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 say	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	gerund	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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