Test 1 · When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief

Your mate Kai goes, "if u don't cry at a funeral u didn't love them, simple." What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u, best reply · What happens: go, not cry, not love, be · To what, where: them, funeral

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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: Your mate Kai goes, "if u don't cry at a funeral u didn't love them, simple."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mate	appos
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 cry	mark
8	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 cry	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cry	advmod
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 funeral	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 funeral	det
14	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 love	obl
15	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 love	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 love	advmod
18	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cry	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 love	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 simple	punct
21	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 love	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not cry speech: express a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	u			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not love in a quote	past · do-support	u	them = they	a funeral	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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's the best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Not true; some people go numb first and cry weeks later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	advcl
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cry	obj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 cry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	some people					first, numb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	some people not said here				week	late property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Not true, because nobody ever cries at funerals at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cries	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cries	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 cries	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 cries	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 cries	advmod
7	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 funerals	case
9	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cries	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	nobody			funerals	ever	at all	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location

Option 3

True, but only for boys, girls always cry straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boys	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 boys	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 boys	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 boys	case
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cry	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girls	punct
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boys	conj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 cry	advmod
10	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 cry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	True boys and girls					always, away property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

True; love always shows up as tears on the very day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct
3	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 shows	advmod
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 shows	compound:prt
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shows	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 day	advmod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	present	love	True not said here			day	as tears; always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location true=Theme

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