--- title: What would happen to most people's grief over a few years? — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen to most people's grief over a few years? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 69 «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/) / [When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer What would happen to most people's grief over a few years? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 69 «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t5:1 # text = What would happen to most people's grief over a few years? 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 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | year | to most people's grief | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} It would turn into anger for ever ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t5:o1:1 # text = It would turn into anger for ever 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 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | would | It | | | anger | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into anger=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} It would always get stronger and sharper as the years went by ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t5:o2:1 # text = It would always get stronger and sharper as the years went by 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 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sharper sharp ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 11 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | would | It | | | | | always, strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go by** | past | the years | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} It would usually get softer, with more happy memories ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t5:o3:1 # text = It would usually get softer, with more happy memories 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 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 9 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | would | It | | | | | with more happy memories; soft, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} It would vanish completely in one day ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer:t5:o4:1 # text = It would vanish completely in one day 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 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 completely completely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | would | It | | | | day | completely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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