Test 6 · ★ · Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment

«Your nan croaked ages ago, get over it,» says a kid to Mia, two months after the funeral. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, kid · What happens: croak, get, say, be · To what, where: nan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: «Your nan croaked ages ago, get over it,» says a kid to Mia, two months after the funeral.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 croaked	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 croaked	nsubj
4	croaked	croak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 croaked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 croaked	parataxis
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 croaked	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kid	det
15	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Mia	case
17	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 kid	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 months	punct
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 months	nummod
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kid	conj
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 funeral	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 funeral	det
23	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 months	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 croaked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	croak in a quote	participle	Your nan		ago property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get in a quote	infinitive		nan		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present	a kid and two months after the funeral			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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sad people should stay at home and not come in to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	Sad people			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	not come in	infinitive	Sad people not said here			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2

The kid is right; two months is more than enough time for grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 more	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 more	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 more	cop
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 right	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 grief	case
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the kid					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	two months				time	more property	tree rules

Option 3

Mia must be faking it for attention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 faking	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 faking	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 faking	aux
4	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faking	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 attention	case
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	must · progressive	Mia	it				for attention	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grief has no deadline; Mia's sadness is normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 deadline	det
4	deadline	deadline	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 normal	punct
6	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sadness	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mia	case
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 normal	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 normal	cop
10	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Grief	no deadline					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deadline=Patient
2	is	present	Mia's sadness					normal property	tree rules

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