Test 2 · ★★★ · When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do

What would happen if everyone in Lily's class avoided her because they didn't know what to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, they · What happens: happen, avoid, not know, say · To what, where: Lily · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

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 avoided	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 avoided	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 class	case
7	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 class	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Lily	case
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everyone	nmod
10	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 avoided	obj
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 know	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 avoided	advcl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 say	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	avoid a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	Lily	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location
3	not know	past · do-support	they		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

She would forget about her mum faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 mum	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obl
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	She					about her mum; fast property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She would feel lonely on top of her grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 grief	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grief	nmod:poss
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She			top of her grief		lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing at all would change for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for her = she	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She would feel much better left alone by all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	advmod
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feel	advcl
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She					by all; well property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by all=Location
2	leave	participle	She not said here					alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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