Test 11 · ★ · When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer

Myth to check: «If you stop crying, it means you've forgotten them.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Myth, you, it · What happens: check, stop, cry, mean, forget · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

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	_	12 means	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	advcl
9	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stop	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 check	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 forgotten	nsubj
14	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 forgotten	aux
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 means	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forgotten	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth		tree rules
2	stop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	you not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean in a quote	present	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	forget in a quote	present · perfect	you	them = they	tree rules

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

True; healing means forgetting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 healing	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	True healing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget not said to happen	gerund	True healing not said here						tree rules

Option 2

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.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

False; you can heal without forgetting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heal	advcl
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 heal	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 heal	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heal	aux
5	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 forgetting	mark
7	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 heal	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	can	you						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	forget	gerund	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

True; tears are the only proof of love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tears	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 proof	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proof	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 proof	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proof	amod
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 love	case
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proof	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	True tears	the only proof				of love	tree rules

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