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Test 1 · Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb

«bruv, Tom never even cried at his nan's funeral, he's well cold innit,» says a boy in London (bruv = mate). Fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, boy · What happens: not cry, be, say · To what, where: funeral, cold innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 66 «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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: «bruv, Tom never even cried at his nan's funeral, he's well cold innit,» says a boy in London (bruv = mate).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 cried	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 funeral	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nan	nmod:poss
10	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 funeral	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 nan	case
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 innit	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 innit	cop
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 cold	advmod
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 innit	amod
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 says	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 London	case
25	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 boy	nmod
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 bruv	punct
27	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	appos
28	=	=	SYM	_	29 mate	punct
29	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bruv	conj
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 bruv	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express in a quote	past	Tom			Tom's nan's funeral			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	Tom	cold innit					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: Fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Not crying isn't the same as not caring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 crying	advmod
2	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 same	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 caring	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 caring	advmod
9	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	crying					same property	tree rules
3	not care	gerund	crying not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tom should be made to cry properly at the next one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	should · passive		Tom					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Tom not said here					at the next one; properly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location

Option 3

He's right; if there are no tears, there was no love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 are	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 tears	det
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 love	det
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	does a condition, not said to happen	present	no tears			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	no love			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Tom must have been happy she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	Tom					happy property	tree rules
2	die	past	Tom						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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