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Test 10 · Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't de…

Ruby snaps "it's NOT the same!" at her friend, who goes quiet. What does Ruby understand weeks later?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, it, friend · What happens: snap, not be, go, understand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 3 «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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: Ruby snaps "it's NOT the same!" at her friend, who goes quiet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 snaps	nsubj
2	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 same	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 same	cop
6	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 same	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snaps	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snaps	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	acl:relcl
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goes	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 snaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	Ruby					at Ruby's friend	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at friend=Location
2	not is in a quote	present	it					same property	tree rules
3	go	present	Ruby's friend					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does Ruby understand weeks later?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 understand	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 understand	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present · do-support	Ruby					late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her friend was trying to make fun of her grief

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	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grief	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grief	nmod:poss
10	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	Her friend						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Her friend not said here	fun of friend's grief					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her friend was trying to connect and show she cared

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	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 connect	mark
6	connect	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 show	cc
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 connect	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cared	nsubj
10	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	Her friend						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	connect not said to happen	to-infinitive	Her friend not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	show	infinitive	Her friend not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	care	past	friend						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Her friend wanted to win a competition about loss

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	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 win	mark
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 competition	det
7	competition	competition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	obj
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 loss	advmod
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Her friend						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	Her friend not said here	a competition				loss obl	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competition=Eventuality

Option 4

Her friend's nan never really died at all

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	4 nan	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 died	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
7	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	participle	Her friend's nan			all			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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