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title: Holly's Nan, who has dementia, remembers her wedding 50 years ago bu… — Dementia and the first death in the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Holly's Nan, who has dementia, remembers her wedding 50 years ago but not what she had for breakfast. Why? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Dementia and the first death in the family

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Holly's Nan, who has dementia, remembers her wedding 50 years ago but not what she had for breakfast. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Nan · **What happens:** have, remember · **To what, where:** dementia, Nan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Holly's Nan, who has dementia, remembers her wedding 50 years ago but not what she had for breakfast.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:1
# text = Holly's Nan, who has dementia, remembers her wedding 50 years ago but not what she had for breakfast.
1	Holly	Holly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Holly's Nan | dementia |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dementia=Patient |
| 2 | **remember** | present | Holly's Nan *not said here* | Nan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Nan |  |  |  |  | for breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Dementia often wipes the newest memories first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:o1:1
# text = Dementia often wipes the newest memories first
1	Dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wipes	wipe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	newest	new	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe** | present | Dementia | the newest memories |  |  |  | first, often *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent memory=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She never ate breakfast that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:o2:1
# text = She never ate breakfast that day
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | past | She | breakfast |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old memories are always forgotten first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:o3:1
# text = Old memories are always forgotten first
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present · passive |  | Old memories |  |  |  | always, first *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She's pretending to forget breakfast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family:t1:o4:1
# text = She's pretending to forget breakfast
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present · progressive | She |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | breakfast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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