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title: What would happen if grown-ups only ever said «she's gone to sleep»… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if grown-ups only ever said «she's gone to sleep» about a death? Test 6 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 right.
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# Test 6 · When a grandparent dies

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What would happen if grown-ups only ever said «she's gone to sleep» about a death?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grown ups, she · **What happens:** happen, grow, say, be, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 58 «When a grandparent dies» 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/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:t6:1
# text = What would happen if grown-ups only ever said «she's gone to sleep» about a death?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | grown ups |  |  |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | she |  |  |  |  | about a death; gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Children would understand death perfectly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:t6:o1:1
# text = Children would understand death perfectly
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | would | Children | death |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody would ever feel sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:t6:o2:1
# text = Nobody would ever feel sad
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | Nobody |  |  |  | ever | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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A child might be scared of sleep or wait for her to wake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:t6:o3:1
# text = A child might be scared of sleep or wait for her to wake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | a child |  |  |  |  | of sleep; scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for child | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wake** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The person would really wake up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:58-when-a-grandparent-dies:t6:o4:1
# text = The person would really wake up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | would | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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