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Test 5 · Kindness to the dying and visiting the old

«Grandad's dying, innit, so writin' 'get well soon' is a lie, yeah?» asks Lucy in East London. What could she write instead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucy, writin · What happens: die, get, be, ask, write · To what, where: lie, East · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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: «Grandad's dying, innit, so writin' 'get well soon' is a lie, yeah?» asks Lucy in East London.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dying	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Grandad	case
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 asks	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 dying	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lie	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	18 lie	advmod
9	writin	writin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lie	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
11	'	'	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 writin	appos
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 get	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 get	advmod
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 soon	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lie	det
18	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dying	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
20	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dying	discourse
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
23	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 asks	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 East	case
26	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 asks	obl
27	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 East	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	gerund	Lucy not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get in a quote	infinitive						soon, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	writin	a lie					tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	Lucy			East			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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: What could she write instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 write	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 write	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 write	nsubj
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 write	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	could	Lucy					instead property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing at all, just a blank card with a stamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 card	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 card	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 card	det
7	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 card	amod
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stamp	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stamp	det
11	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 card	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«I love you» or «Thinking of you»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 love	nsubj
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 love	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 Thinking	cc
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Thinking	punct
8	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 love	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 Thinking	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	present	I	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	think speech: other in a quote	gerund	I not said here					of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

«Get well» anyway, just to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Get	advmod
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 Get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 polite	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 polite	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 polite	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 polite	cop
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	imperative	you not said here					anyway, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive						polite property	tree rules

Option 4

«See you never, Grandad, bye-bye now»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 See	obj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 See	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Grandad	punct
6	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 See	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bye	punct
8	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bye	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bye	punct
10	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Grandad	appos
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 See	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see in a quote	imperative	you not said here	you			now	Grandad obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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