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Test 9 · ★ · Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment

In a cartoon, a hero smashes the whole town in fury after his mentor dies, and everyone cheers. What's the real-life lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero, mentor, everyone, life lesson · What happens: smash, die, cheer, be · To what, where: whole town, cartoon

This is test 9 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, a hero smashes the whole town in fury after his mentor dies, and everyone cheers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hero	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	nsubj
7	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 fury	case
12	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obl
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 dies	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mentor	nmod:poss
15	mentor	mentor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dies	nsubj
16	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashes	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cheers	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cheers	cc
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 cheers	nsubj
20	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashes	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	a hero	the whole town		a cartoon		in fury	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent town=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	die	present	hero's mentor						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cheer	present	everyone						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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's the real-life lesson?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lesson	compound
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the life lesson						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Anger in grief is always heroic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heroic	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 grief	case
3	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anger	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heroic	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 heroic	advmod
6	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Anger in grief					always, heroic property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only cartoon heroes feel angry when someone they love dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 heroes	advmod
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heroes	compound
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 dies	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 dies	nsubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 love	nsubj
9	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	acl:relcl
10	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	cartoon heroes					angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	love	present	heroes = hero						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	die	present	someone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Smashing things up is the right way to grieve for someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smashing	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 way	csubj
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smashing	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Smashing	compound:prt
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grieve	mark
9	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 someone	case
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 grieve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash up	gerund		things					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	is a	present	Smashing	the right way					tree rules
3	grieve	to-infinitive						for someone	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Anger is natural, but it must not hurt people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 natural	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 natural	cop
3	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hurt	advmod
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 natural	parataxis
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Anger					natural property	tree rules
2	not hurt	must	Anger	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

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