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title: Tyler's mum says, «A new dog tomorrow is heartless.» Tyler says the… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tyler's mum says, «A new dog tomorrow is heartless.» Tyler says the house is too quiet. What is fair? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 57 «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 11 · ★ · Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»

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Tyler's mum says, «A new dog tomorrow is heartless.» Tyler says the house is too quiet. What is fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, new dog, Tyler, house · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 57 «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Tyler's mum says, «A new dog tomorrow is heartless.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:1
# text = Tyler's mum says, «A new dog tomorrow is heartless.»
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	heartless	heartless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tyler's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a new dog  tomorrow |  |  |  |  | heartless *property* | tree rules |

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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:* Tyler says the house is too quiet.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:2
# text = Tyler says the house is too quiet.
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	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	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tyler |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the house |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What is fair?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:3
# text = What is fair?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Both feelings are normal; talk about it as a family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:o1:1
# text = Both feelings are normal; talk about it as a family
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | both feelings |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about it; as a family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Mum is right, it shows he never really loved his dog at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:o2:1
# text = Mum is right, it shows he never really loved his dog at all
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **love** | past | he | his dog |  | all |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tyler is right, and grief is silly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:o3:1
# text = Tyler is right, and grief is silly
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tyler |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | grief |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neither, because dogs don't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon:t11:o4:1
# text = Neither, because dogs don't matter
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | dogs |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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