Test 5 · The church funeral

What would happen if a funeral had no hymns, poems or stories, only silence?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: funeral · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: hymns

This is test 5 of lesson 62 «The church funeral» 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	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 hymns	det
9	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poems	punct
11	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hymns	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 stories	cc
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hymns	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 silence	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 silence	advmod
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hymns	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a funeral	no hymns and poems or stories and silence					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Patient

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

Everybody would stop being sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Everybody						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	Everybody not said here					sad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could still be respectful, but many people find songs and stories comforting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 respectful	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 respectful	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 respectful	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 respectful	cop
5	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 find	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	nsubj
10	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 respectful	parataxis
11	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stories	cc
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 songs	conj
14	comforting	comforting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	It				still	respectful property	tree rules
2	find	present	many people	songs and stories				comforting property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

Option 3

It would not count as a funeral at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 count	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 count	advmod
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 funeral	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 funeral	det
7	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 count	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	would	It			all		as a funeral	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as funeral=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The person could not be buried

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	6 buried	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 buried	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bury	could · passive		the person					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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