Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★

Check the claim: "Kids who laugh at a funeral didn't love the person."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Kids · What happens: check, laugh, not love · To what, where: claim, funeral, person

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 claim	det
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
6	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 love	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 laugh	nsubj
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Kids	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 funeral	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 funeral	det
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 love	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 love	advmod
14	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Check	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 love	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Check	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	the claim		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
2	laugh in a quote	present	Kids		a funeral	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not love in a quote	past · do-support	Kids	the person		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

False: grief comes in waves, laughter included

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grief	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 waves	case
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laughter	punct
8	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	conj
9	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 waves	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	False grief			waves and laughter			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location
2	include	participle		waves and laughter not said here					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

False, because funerals are meant to be fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meant	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 meant	mark
4	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meant	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 fun	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fun	cop
9	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meant	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		False					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						fun property	tree rules

Option 3

True, unless the children are very young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 young	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 young	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 young	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj

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

Option 4

True: sad people never laugh at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sad	punct
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laugh	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 laugh	advmod
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	present	True people			all			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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