Test 16 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

grandad died n i can't stop thinking about it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, i · What happens: die, not stop, think

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	7 stop	cc
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stop	advmod
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 died	conj
8	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die	past	grandad		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not stop	can	i		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	i not said here	about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Talk to someone you trust, grief gets easier with time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 someone	case
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Talk	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 trust	nsubj
5	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 someone	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	advcl
9	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 gets	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		to someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent
2	trust	present	you			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	grief	time	easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Only grown-ups feel grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	present	grown ups	grief					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme

Option 3

Never talk about him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 talk	advmod
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talk	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative	you not said here				again	about him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic

Option 4

Feeling this sad means something is wrong with you inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Feeling	obj
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wrong	obl
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund		this	sad property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	mean	present	Feeling		inside property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	something		with you; wrong property	tree rules

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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