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title: What would happen if a funeral had no hymns, poems or stories, only… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a funeral had no hymns, poems or stories, only silence? Test 5 of lesson 62 «The church funeral» 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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# Test 5 · The church funeral

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What would happen if a funeral had no hymns, poems or stories, only silence?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** funeral · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** hymns

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This is test 5 of lesson 62 «The church funeral» 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/62-the-church-funeral/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:62-the-church-funeral:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a funeral had no hymns, poems or stories, only silence?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a funeral | no hymns and poems or stories and silence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Patient |

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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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Everybody would stop being sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:62-the-church-funeral:t5:o1:1
# text = Everybody would stop being sad
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Everybody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |

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

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It could still be respectful, but many people find songs and stories comforting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:62-the-church-funeral:t5:o2:1
# text = It could still be respectful, but many people find songs and stories comforting
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	comforting	comforting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | It |  |  |  | still | respectful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | many people | songs and stories |  |  |  | comforting *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would not count as a funeral at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:62-the-church-funeral:t5:o3:1
# text = It would not count as a funeral at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | would | It |  |  | all |  | as a funeral | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as funeral=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The person could not be buried

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:62-the-church-funeral:t5:o4:1
# text = The person could not be buried
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bury** | could · passive |  | the person |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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