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Test 6 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

A five-year-old thinks her grandma died because she was naughty. What should an older brother tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: year old, grandma, older brother · What happens: think, die, be, tell · To what, where: grandma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A five-year-old thinks her grandma died because she was naughty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 five	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandma	nmod:poss
9	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinks	ccomp
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 naughty	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 naughty	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 naughty	cop
14	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 died	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a year old						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	past	her grandma						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	grandma					naughty 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.

Sentence 2: What should an older brother tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	a older brother		grandma				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is a secret and they should not talk about it

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 secret	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talk	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 talk	advmod
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 secret	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a secret					tree rules
2	not talk	should	they					about secret	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2

Grandma is only sleeping and will wake up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wake	cc
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wake	aux
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sleeping	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	Grandma						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up	future	Grandma not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

She should be extra good from now on so that it does not happen again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 good	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	cop
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 good	advmod
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 now	fixed
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 happen	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happen	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 happen	advmod
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	csubj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 happen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	She					good property	tree rules
2	not happen	present · do-support	it				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing she did or thought could make Grandma die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 make	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	she not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	could	Nothing	Grandma					tree rules
4	die	infinitive	Grandma not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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