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title: Identify the principal cause of the death of an elderly grandparent… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal cause of the death of an elderly grandparent from illness. Exam question 2 of lesson 58 «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics 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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# Exam question 2 · When a grandparent dies

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Identify the principal cause of the death of an elderly grandparent from illness.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, elderly grandparent · **What happens:** identify, cause, die · **To what, where:** principal cause, death

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 58 «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal cause of the death of an elderly grandparent from illness.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal cause of the death of a elderly grandparent from illness |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | the death of a elderly grandparent from illness |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **die** |  | a elderly grandparent from illness |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A discourteous remark made by a grandchild shortly before the death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:e2:o1:1
# text = A discourteous remark made by a grandchild shortly before the death
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a discourteous remark *not said here* |  |  | before the death | by a grandchild; shortly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The illness and advanced age of the deceased, and not the conduct of any child

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:e2:o2:1
# text = The illness and advanced age of the deceased, and not the conduct of any child
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **conduct** |  |  | any child |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The grandchild's failure to visit the grandparent sufficiently often in the final years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:e2:o3:1
# text = The grandchild's failure to visit the grandparent sufficiently often in the final years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | the grandparent |  |  | year | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fail** |  | the grandchild |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The grandchild's having enjoyed a holiday during the final illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:e2:o4:1
# text = The grandchild's having enjoyed a holiday during the final illness
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the grandchild *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enjoy** | past | the grandchild | a holiday |  |  | during the final illness |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer holiday=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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