Test 8 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…

Jack's cousin asks, «Is it still a real funeral if there's no God stuff?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, God stuff, best answer · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: real funeral · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Jack's cousin asks, «Is it still a real funeral if there's no God stuff?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 funeral	punct
7	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 funeral	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 funeral	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	12 funeral	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 funeral	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 funeral	amod
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 's	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 's	expl
15	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 stuff	det
17	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stuff	compound
18	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 's	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Jack's cousin				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	cousin	a real funeral		still	tree rules
3	be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	no God stuff		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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

Yes, a humanist funeral is a real way to say goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 funeral	det
4	humanist	humanist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 funeral	amod
5	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a humanist funeral	a real way					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 2

Only if the vicar comes along to bless it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 comes	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 comes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vicar	det
4	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 comes	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bless	mark
8	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comes	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come along	present	the vicar					along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bless	to-infinitive	the vicar not said here	vicar					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

No, without any prayers or hymns it doesn't really count as a funeral

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	12 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prayers	punct
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 prayers	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 prayers	det
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 count	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 hymns	cc
7	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prayers	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 count	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 count	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 count	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 count	advmod
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 funeral	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 funeral	det
15	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	any prayers or hymns					as a funeral	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as funeral=Attribute

Option 4

No, it's just a concert with sad songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 concert	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 concert	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 concert	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 concert	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 concert	det
7	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 songs	case
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	amod
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 concert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a concert				with sad songs	tree rules

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