Test 10 · Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave

A cartoon shows a skeleton climbing out of a grave at night. What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, skeleton, truth · What happens: show, climb, be · To what, where: skeleton, grave

This is test 10 of lesson 63 «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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 skeleton climbing out of a grave at night.

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 skeleton	det
5	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 skeleton	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 grave	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grave	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbing	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbing	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a skeleton					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skeleton=Recipient
2	climb	gerund	a skeleton not said here			a grave	night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out grave=Trajectory

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 truth?

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	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only very old graves do that, never new ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 graves	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 graves	amod
4	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 ones	advmod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	old graves	that				new ones obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2

It happens in every cemetery at midnight, but nobody sees it

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	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cemetery	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cemetery	det
5	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sees	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sees	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 sees	nsubj
11	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It			every cemetery	midnight		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cemetery=Location
2	see	present	nobody	cemetery					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dead stay at rest; such scenes are just made-up stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stay	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	amod
3	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stories	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scenes	amod
8	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stories	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stories	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 stories	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stories	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	such scenes	made stories					tree rules

Option 4

Skeletons climb out once a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climb	nsubj
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 climb	compound:prt
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 climb	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb out	present	Skeletons					once property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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