Test 8 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

Why do people hold funerals?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: hold · To what, where: funerals

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hold	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · do-support	people	funerals					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme

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

So the person can hear them one last time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 hear	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 time	nummod
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	the person	them = they			time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

Because crying is only allowed there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 allowed	mark
2	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 allowed	advmod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 allowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	allow	present · passive				there			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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

So people can say goodbye together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	people	goodbye				together property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 4

To decide who gets the person's things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decide	mark
2	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gets	advcl
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 person	case
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present		the person's things					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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