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title: A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children th… — How other people remember: Día de los… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets. What is wrong? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…

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A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon, skeletons · **What happens:** show, chase, be · **To what, where:** Day, children, streets

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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/65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:1
# text = A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  | the Day of the Dead |  |  | as skeletons | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Recipient |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund | skeletons *not said here* | children |  | the streets |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme through street=Trajectory |

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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:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:2
# text = What is wrong?
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	wrong	wrong	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 |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It is a loving festival of memory, not a scary chase

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:o1:1
# text = It is a loving festival of memory, not a scary chase
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a loving festival and a scary chase |  |  |  | of memory | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Skeletons only chase adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:o2:1
# text = Skeletons only chase adults
1	Skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | Skeletons | adults |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, it is exactly like that every year in Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:o3:1
# text = Nothing, it is exactly like that every year in Mexico
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing | every year |  | Mexico |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The skeletons are real people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more:t11:o4:1
# text = The skeletons are real people
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the skeletons | real people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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