Test 4 · When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief

What would happen if Mia's family stopped saying Rolo's name so they would not upset her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, they, Rolo · What happens: happen, stop, say, not upset, name · To what, where: name, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stopped	mark
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mia	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	Rolo	Rolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 name	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rolo	case
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 upset	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 upset	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 upset	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 upset	advmod
17	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 upset	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Mia's family		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Mia's family not said here	Rolo's name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
4	not upset	would	they	family	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	name		Rolo		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

She would probably feel more alone with her guilt

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	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 alone	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guilt	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 guilt	nmod:poss
9	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She					with her guilt; alone, probably property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing at all, because silence always helps grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 helps	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 helps	mark
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 silence	advmod
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Nothing	grief					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Beneficiary

Option 3

She would forget Rolo faster and feel better at once

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	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Rolo	Rolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 forget	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feel	cc
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	conj
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 feel	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	She	Rolo				fast property	tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	She not said here					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She would stop checking the gate straight away

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	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checking	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	She					away property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	check	gerund	She not said here	the gate					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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