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Test 9 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

«I'm gonna plant a tree for my nan, will it make me remember her?» asks Sophie. Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sophie, tree · What happens: plant, make, remember, ask · To what, where: tree, Sophie, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: «I'm gonna plant a tree for my nan, will it make me remember her?» asks Sophie.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 plant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 plant	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plant	aux
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 plant	dep
5	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asks	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 nan	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nan	nmod:poss
10	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plant	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plant	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 plant	punct
20	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 asks	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant in a quote	present	Sophie	a tree				for my nan	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	make in a quote	future	tree	Sophie					tree rules
3	remember in a quote	infinitive	Sophie not said here	her = she					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	present	Sophie						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only oak trees work for remembering someone who has died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 trees	advmod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trees	compound
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 remembering	mark
6	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 work	advcl
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 remembering	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 died	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 died	aux
10	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 someone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	oak trees						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	gerund	oak trees not said here	someone					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
3	die	present · perfect							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It can be a living reminder that grows each year

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	6 reminder	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reminder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 reminder	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reminder	det
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reminder	amod
6	reminder	reminder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reminder	acl:relcl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	It	a living reminder					tree rules
2	grow	present	a living reminder				year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It only works if Nan's ashes are under it

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 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 are	mark
5	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ashes	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Nan	case
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	advcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	does a condition, not said to happen	present	Nan's ashes			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Location

Option 4

Trees make you forget so it hurts less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 hurts	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurts	nsubj
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 hurts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Trees	you					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
3	hurt	present	it					less property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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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