Test 6 · When a grandparent dies

What would happen if grown-ups only ever said «she's gone to sleep» about a death?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, she · What happens: happen, grow, say, be, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 58 «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics 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	_	10 said	mark
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gone	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 death	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 death	det
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	grown ups	ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	she		about a death; gone property	tree rules
5	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Children would understand death perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obj
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Children	death				perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody would ever feel sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	Nobody				ever	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A child might be scared of sleep or wait for her to wake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 wait	cc
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wait	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wake	mark
13	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	might	a child	of sleep; scared property	tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	a child not said here	for child	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake	to-infinitive	a child not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The person would really wake up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 wake	advmod
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	would	the person						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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