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title: Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck in sadness.» Test 11 of lesson 68 «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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
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# Test 11 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

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Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck in sadness.»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Myth, Remembering · **What happens:** check, remember, keep · **To what, where:** someone, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 68 «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t11:1
# text = Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck in sadness.»
1	Myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | Myth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | gerund |  | someone |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Remembering | you |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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False; it is a way of keeping love close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t11:o1:1
# text = False; it is a way of keeping love close
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a False way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | a False way *not said here* | love |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True; it stops grief ever getting softer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t11:o2:1
# text = True; it stops grief ever getting softer
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | it | grief |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grief=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  | ever | soft *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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True; you should forget special days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t11:o3:1
# text = True; you should forget special days
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
6	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | should | you |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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False, but only after ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t11:o4:1
# text = False, but only after ten years
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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