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Test 7 · ★★★ · When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do

A Texan boy says, «Y'all, Leo's mama passed, can we wear black armbands Saturday?» («Passed» means «died».) What will this show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Texan boy, mama, Y'all · What happens: say, pass, wear, mean, die · To what, where: Y'all, black armbands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 Texan boy says, «Y'all, Leo's mama passed, can we wear black armbands Saturday?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	Texan	texan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Y'all	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Y'all	punct
7	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wear	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
9	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mama	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Leo	case
11	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Y'all	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 wear	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wear	nsubj
16	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 armbands	amod
18	armbands	armband	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wear	obj
19	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 armbands	flat
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a Texan boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass in a quote	past	Leo's mama	Y'all not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme y'all=Trajectory
3	wear in a quote	can	Y'all	black armbands					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armband=Source

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: («Passed» means «died».)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Passed	punct
3	Passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Passed	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass in a quote	participle							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die in a quote	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Sentence 3: What will this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	det
4	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

That Leo must play even though he is sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Leo	det
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 play	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 sad	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sad	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 play	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	must	that Leo						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Leo					sad property	tree rules

Option 2

That black armbands are the new kit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 armbands	nsubj
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 armbands	amod
3	armbands	armband	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kit	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kit	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kit	amod
7	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	armband		That						tree rules
2	is a	present	black armbands	the new kit					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the team cares and Leo is not alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 team	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 team	det
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cares	nsubj
4	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 alone	cc
6	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 alone	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 alone	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 alone	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cares	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present	that team						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	present	Leo					alone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That the team is sad they might lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 team	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 team	det
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that team					sad property	tree rules
2	lose	might	they						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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