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Test 8 · When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief

Aisha's mate texts: "yeah nah, I'm just gonna avoid her til she's over her mum, less awkward." What's the problem?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Aisha, problem · What happens: avoid, be · To what, where: Aisha

This is test 8 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: Aisha's mate texts: "yeah nah, I'm just gonna avoid her til she's over her mum, less awkward."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 texts	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aisha	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 texts	compound
4	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 avoid	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 nah	discourse
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 avoid	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 avoid	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 avoid	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 gonna	advmod
13	gonna	gonna	ADV	_	14 avoid	advmod
14	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 texts	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 avoid	obj
16	til	till	ADP	_	21 mum	case
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mum	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mum	cop
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 mum	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mum	nmod:poss
21	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 avoid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 awkward	punct
23	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 awkward	advmod
24	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mum	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 avoid	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 avoid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid in a quote	present	I	Aisha				gonna property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location
2	is in a quote	present	Aisha				till Aisha's mum		tree rules
3	be in a quote		Aisha not said here					less 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's the problem?

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	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Her friend will not notice who talks to her anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 talks	nsubj
7	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talks	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 talks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	future	Her friend						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	talk	present			friend			anyway property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 2

There is no problem; grief always ends in about a week or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 ends	punct
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ends	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 ends	advmod
8	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 week	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 week	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ends	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 so	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	12 week	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no problem			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	end	present	grief				week	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grieving people often feel lonely when friends go quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	feel	present	Grieving people					lonely, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	go	present	friends					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Avoiding someone is the kindest way to show respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Avoiding	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	gerund		someone					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent someone=Location
2	is a	present	Avoiding	the kindest way					tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive		respect					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient

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