Test 3 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, Grandma · What happens: happen, smell, perfume · To what, where: perfume

This is test 3 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	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 smelled	mark
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smelled	nsubj
6	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 perfume	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Grandma	case
9	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelled	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 year	amod
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would			again; year	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smell a condition, not said to happen	past	Mia	Grandma's perfume		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perfume=Stimulus
3	perfume		Grandma			nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It might bring sudden tears again, and that's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tears	amod
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 normal	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 normal	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 normal	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 normal	cop
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	might	It	sudden tears			again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
2	is	present	that					normal property	tree rules

Option 2

She would definitely feel nothing at all next time, because grief ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 feel	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ends	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 ends	mark
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ends	nsubj
13	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She	nothing			time	definitely property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	end	present	grief						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It would mean her grief was never real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grief	nmod:poss
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 real	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 real	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	her grief					real property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She would have to see a doctor at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	She						tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	She not said here	a doctor					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus

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