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title: Why do people hold funerals? — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people hold funerals? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

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Why do people hold funerals?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** funerals

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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/97-moving-change-and-grief/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t8:1
# text = Why do people hold funerals?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · do-support | people | funerals |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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So the person can hear them one last time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t8:o1:1
# text = So the person can hear them one last time
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | the person | them *= they* |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because crying is only allowed there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t8:o2:1
# text = Because crying is only allowed there
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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So people can say goodbye together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t8:o3:1
# text = So people can say goodbye together
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | people | goodbye |  |  |  | together *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To decide who gets the person's things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t8:o4:1
# text = To decide who gets the person's things
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	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	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present |  | the person's things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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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