--- title: Why did the family feel hurt when children laughed at the funeral? — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: Why did the family feel hurt when children laughed at the funeral? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/t15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Quiet places and solemn moments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/) / t15 # Test 15 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments Why did the family feel hurt when children laughed at the funeral? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, children · **What happens:** feel, hurt, laugh · **To what, where:** funeral This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/#t15). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t15:1 # text = Why did the family feel hurt when children laughed at the funeral? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the family | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | participle | the family *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **laugh** | past | children | | | the funeral | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} They wanted to tell jokes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t15:o1:1 # text = They wanted to tell jokes 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | They | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | jokes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient | ### Option 2 {#o2} They thought the jokes were bad ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t15:o2:1 # text = They thought the jokes were bad 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | They | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the jokes | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Funerals must be silent forever ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t15:o3:1 # text = Funerals must be silent forever 1 Funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 forever forever ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | Funerals | | | | | forever, silent *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} They were grieving and it felt like nobody cared ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t15:o4:1 # text = They were grieving and it felt like nobody cared 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grieving grieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 like like SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | past · progressive | They | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **feel** | past | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **care** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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