Test 11 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck in sadness.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Myth, Remembering · What happens: check, remember, keep · To what, where: someone, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 68 «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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	Myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 check	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Remembering	punct
6	Remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	csubj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 Remembering	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Remembering	obl
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 check	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 keeps	obj
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keeps	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 sadness	case
15	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth				tree rules
2	remember in a quote	gerund		someone	day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
3	keep in a quote	present	Remembering	you		stuck property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

False; it is a way of keeping love close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 keeping	mark
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	acl
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obj
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a False way					tree rules
2	keep	gerund	a False way not said here	love				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme

Option 2

True; it stops grief ever getting softer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stops	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 stops	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 getting	advmod
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stops	advcl
8	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	it	grief					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grief=Eventuality
2	get	gerund					ever	soft property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

True; you should forget special days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	should	you				day		tree rules

Option 4

False, but only after ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 years	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 years	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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