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title: What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year? — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthda… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year? Test 3 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 choice was wr
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# Test 3 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

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What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mia, Grandma · **What happens:** happen, smell, perfume · **To what, where:** perfume

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t3:1
# text = What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year?
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smelled	smell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | again; year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Mia | Grandma's perfume |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perfume=Stimulus |
| 3 | **perfume** |  | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It might bring sudden tears again, and that's normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t3:o1:1
# text = It might bring sudden tears again, and that's normal
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | might | It | sudden tears |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She would definitely feel nothing at all next time, because grief ends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t3:o2:1
# text = She would definitely feel nothing at all next time, because grief ends
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | She | nothing |  |  | time | definitely *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | present | grief |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would mean her grief was never real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t3:o3:1
# text = It would mean her grief was never real
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | her grief |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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She would have to see a doctor at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days:t3:o4:1
# text = She would have to see a doctor at once
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=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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