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Test 1 · ★ · When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer

«Me mam keeps sayin' she's grand but she's not grand at all,» says a girl in Dublin (grand = fine). Best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Me mam, mam, girl · What happens: keep, be, not be, say, do · To what, where: sayin, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 69 «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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: «Me mam keeps sayin' she's grand but she's not grand at all,» says a girl in Dublin (grand = fine).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
2	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 mam	compound
3	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grand	advcl
5	sayin	sayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grand	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grand	cop
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 says	advcl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 grand	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grand	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grand	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 grand	advmod
14	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grand	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 grand	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grand	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Dublin	case
23	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 girl	nmod
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 grand	punct
25	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	appos
26	=	=	SYM	_	27 fine	punct
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grand	conj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 grand	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Me mam	sayin					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sayin=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	mam					grand property	tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present	mam			all		grand property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	a girl in Dublin						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: Best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thing	amod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thing	acl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

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

Gently tell Mum she doesn't have to pretend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gently	gently	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pretend	mark
9	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Mum			gently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not have	present · do-support	she						tree rules
3	pretend	to-infinitive	she not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Believe her and never ask her about it again, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Believe	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Believe	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ever	punct
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Believe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here	her = she			ever		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	not ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		her = she		again	about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3

Get angry with Mum for hiding things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Get	xcomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Mum	case
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 hiding	mark
6	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Get	advcl
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here					with Mum; angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hide	gerund	you not said here	things					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 4

Tell everyone at school Mum's lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lying	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mum	case
7	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	Mum's lying	everyone	school			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient lying=Topic
2	lie		Mum						nom lying «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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