Test 4 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

Which is true about grief?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 grief	case
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about grief; true 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

It only happens when a person dies

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	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 dies	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dies	nsubj
7	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happens	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	present	a person						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

It means you should stay sad all of the time, or you did not care

The tree, 15 words

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stay	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 care	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 care	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 care	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 care	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 care	advmod
16	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	should	you	all	sad property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme all=Location
3	not care	past · do-support	you			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is the price of love, and it comes and goes

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	4 price	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 price	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 price	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 comes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 comes	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 price	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 goes	cc
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 comes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the price	of love	tree rules
2	come	present	love			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	love not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It always lasts exactly one month

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	3 lasts	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 lasts	advmod
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 month	nummod
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	It				month	always property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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