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title: «crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst». What could help… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: «crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst». What could help most? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · When a parent has died

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«crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst». What could help most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crap, i, Mum · **What happens:** not remember, be, laugh, help · **To what, where:** laugh

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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/518-when-a-parent-has-died/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:1
# text = «crap, i can't remember Mum's laugh, i'm the worst».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remember** *in a quote* | can | crap | Mum's laugh |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | i |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** *in a quote* |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* What could help most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:2
# text = What could help most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pretending you remember

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:o1:1
# text = Pretending you remember
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Telling no one about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:o2:1
# text = Telling no one about it
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | no one |  |  |  | about it | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about it=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trying never to think of her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:o3:1
# text = Trying never to think of her
1	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of her *= she* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Videos, photos and family stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died:t4:o4:1
# text = Videos, photos and family stories
1	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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**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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