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Test 5 · ★ · Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big ques…

Isla's two friends are arguing loudly over whether Grandad is "in heaven" or "just nowhere". What would help Isla more?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two friends, Grandad · What happens: argue, be, help · To what, where: heaven, Isla · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2 «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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: Isla's two friends are arguing loudly over whether Grandad is "in heaven" or "just nowhere".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friends	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Isla	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 friends	nummod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arguing	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 arguing	aux
6	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 arguing	advmod
8	over	over	SCONJ	_	14 heaven	mark
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 heaven	mark
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 heaven	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heaven	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 heaven	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 heaven	case
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arguing	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 heaven	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 nowhere	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 nowhere	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 nowhere	advmod
19	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 heaven	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 nowhere	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arguing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · progressive	Isla's two friends					loudly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Grandad			heaven			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 would help Isla more?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 help	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 Isla	amod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			Isla				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isla=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shouting louder than both of them until they stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	csubj
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shouting	xcomp
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 both	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 louder	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 both	nmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 stop	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Choosing one friend to win and never speaking to the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 friend	nummod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choosing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 win	mark
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 friend	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 speaking	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 speaking	advmod
8	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Choosing	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund		one friend					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive		one friend not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	gerund						to the other	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to other=Co-Agent

Option 3

Agreeing that her grandad's life did not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agreeing	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 matter	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 life	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandad	nmod:poss
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 grandad	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agreeing	advcl
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not matter	past · do-support	Agreeing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hearing different beliefs kindly and deciding he lives on in her memories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 lives	csubj
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beliefs	amod
3	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obj
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Hearing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 deciding	cc
6	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hearing	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 lives	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 memories	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 memories	nmod:poss
12	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		different beliefs				kindly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer belief=Stimulus
2	decide	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live on	present	he			her memories			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in memory=Location

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