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description: A week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone. How does this help? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 6 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye

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A week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone. How does this help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** week, family, this · **What happens:** die, make, name, help · **To what, where:** little garden, stone

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:1
# text = A week after their cat died, a family in Wellington makes a little garden with its name on a stone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | a week after their cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | present | a family in Wellington | a little garden |  |  |  | with family's name on a stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product |
| 3 | **name** |  | family |  |  | a stone |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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:* How does this help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:2
# text = How does this help?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It brings the cat back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:o1:1
# text = It brings the cat back
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | present | It |  | the cat |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cat=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes them forget about the cat much faster than doing nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:o2:1
# text = It makes them forget about the cat much faster than doing nothing
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | them *= they* |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the cat | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It stops anyone from feeling sad again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:o3:1
# text = It stops anyone from feeling sad again
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | It | anyone |  |  | again |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anyone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Remembering a pet helps the sadness slowly get smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t6:o4:1
# text = Remembering a pet helps the sadness slowly get smaller
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | gerund |  | a pet |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | Remembering | the sadness |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **get** | present | Remembering *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly, small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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