Test 4 · ★ · Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment

What would happen if Harvey kept telling himself that Grandad died because he went to football?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harvey, Grandad · What happens: happen, keep, tell, die, go · To what, where: Harvey, football · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 67 «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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 kept	mark
5	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 telling	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	ccomp
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 died	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 football	case
16	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Harvey			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Harvey not said here	Harvey		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	die	past	Grandad			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	go	past	Grandad		football	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to football=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd carry guilt for something that wasn't his fault

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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 carry	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fault	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fault	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fault	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fault	nmod:poss
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	He	guilt				for something	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme
2	not is a	past	that	his fault					tree rules

Option 2

Nothing at all; guilt like that always goes away by itself in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 goes	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 guilt	punct
5	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 guilt	nmod
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 goes	advmod
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 goes	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 goes	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	Nothing				time	by guilt; always, away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Grandad would come back to life if he stopped playing football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stopped	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stopped	xcomp
11	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	would	Grandad		life	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Grandad			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	play	gerund	Grandad not said here	football		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

Option 4

He'd prove he loved Grandad most

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 prove	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	ccomp
6	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 loved	obj
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	love	past	he	Grandad					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandad=Stimulus

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