Test 4 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…

What would happen if everyone thought their own funeral customs were the only right ones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, own funeral customs · What happens: happen, think, be · To what, where: right ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

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	_	6 thought	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 customs	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 customs	amod
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 customs	compound
10	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ones	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ones	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ones	det
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 ones	advmod
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	their own funeral customs	the right ones	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.

The options

Option 1

Nobody would ever be sad again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 sad	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 sad	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nobody				ever; again	sad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People might mock each other's grief instead of respecting it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mock	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mock	aux
3	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grief	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 other	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mock	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 respecting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	respecting	respect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mock	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 respecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	might	People	each other's grief					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme
2	respect	gerund	People not said here	grief					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

All funerals would become the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 funerals	det
2	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	all funerals					same property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would agree on everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 agree	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 agree	aux
3	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	would	Everyone					on everything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic

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