Test 5 · Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave

What would happen if nobody ever visited graves or remembered the dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, visit, remember · To what, where: graves, dead

This is test 5 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

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 visited	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 visited	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 visited	advmod
7	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 visited	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 remembered	cc
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 visited	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dead	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remembered	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	graves	ever	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent
3	remember	past	nobody not said here	the dead		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dead=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all, remembering never helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 helps	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remembering	punct
5	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 helps	advmod
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund	Nothing not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	not help	present	Nothing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People would lose a place and a way to feel close to those they loved

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feel	mark
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 those	case
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 close	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loved	nsubj
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 those	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	would	People	a place		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	People not said here		close property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	love	past	People			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The dead would come back to visit us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dead	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the dead						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive	the dead not said here	us					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent

Option 4

Graves would turn into gardens by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 gardens	case
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Graves			gardens		by Graves = grave	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Source by themselves=Trajectory

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