Test 12 · ★★★ · When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do

A cartoon shows a friend fixing a grieving girl's sadness in one speech, and she skips off happy. What is the real picture?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, friend, real picture · What happens: show, fix, grieve, skip off, be · To what, where: friend, sadness, one speech

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 61 «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a friend fixing a grieving girl's sadness in one speech, and she skips off happy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 friend	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sadness	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 girl	case
11	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixing	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 speech	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 speech	nummod
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 skips	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 skips	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 skips	nsubj
18	skips	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 skips	compound:prt
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 skips	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		a friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
2	fix	gerund	a friend not said here	a grieving girl's sadness		one speech		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient
3	grieve	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	skip off	present	cartoon				happy property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 is the real picture?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 picture	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picture	amod
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Grief takes time; friends can listen but cannot fix it in one go

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listen	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	parataxis
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fix	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fix	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fix	advmod
11	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 listen	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fix	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 go	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 go	nummod
15	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	present	Grief			time	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	listen	can	friends				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not fix	can	friends not said here	Grief	one go		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Grieving people are never sad for long

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	5 sad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 long	case
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sad	obl

#	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	not is	present	Grieving people					sad property	tree rules

Option 3

One good speech ends grief for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 speech	nummod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speech	amod
3	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ends	nsubj
4	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ends	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	One good speech	grief					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grief=Eventuality

Option 4

Only cartoons have grieving people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cartoons	advmod
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cartoons	grieving people					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	grieve	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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