Test 12 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…

Ava's teacher asks the class, formally, «What, if anything, do these customs share?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, customs, best answer · What happens: ask, do, share, be · To what, where: class, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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: Ava's teacher asks the class, formally, «What, if anything, do these customs share?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 formally	punct
8	formally	formally	ADV	_	4 asks	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 What	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 What	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asks	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 anything	punct
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 What	parataxis
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 customs	det
18	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 share	nsubj
19	share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 do	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ava's teacher	the class	formally property	tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive		anything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	share in a quote	infinitive	this customs			tree rules

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 best answer?

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	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Remembering the dead, coming together and showing love in their own way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dead	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remembering	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Remembering	conj
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 showing	cc
8	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Remembering	conj
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 showing	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund	the dead		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
2	come together	gerund		together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	gerund	love	in their own way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent love=Patient in way=Topic

Option 2

They are all Christian, but held in different countries around the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Christian	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Christian	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 Christian	advmod
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Christian	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 held	obl
11	around	around	ADP	_	14 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					all, christian property	tree rules
2	hold	participle	They not said here			different countries		around the whole world	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

Option 3

They all use the same holy book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
6	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	They	the same holy book					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

Option 4

They all forbid any food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbid	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 forbid	advmod
3	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present	They	any food					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer food=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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