Test 5 · ★ · When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer

What would happen to most people's grief over a few years?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 5 · ★ 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	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	to	to	ADP	_	8 grief	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grief	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 people	case
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					year	to most people's grief	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

It would turn into anger for ever

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 anger	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			anger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into anger=Trajectory

Option 2

It would always get stronger and sharper as the years went by

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	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sharper	cc
7	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stronger	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					always, strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go by	past	the years						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would usually get softer, with more happy memories

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	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 memories	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 memories	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 memories	amod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 memories	amod
10	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					with more happy memories; soft, usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It would vanish completely in one day

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 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 vanish	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	It				day	completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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