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title: In a film, children run screaming from a care home because «old peop… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a film, children run screaming from a care home because «old people are creepy». What's the real lesson? Test 8 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 8 · Kindness to the dying and visiting the old

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In a film, children run screaming from a care home because «old people are creepy». What's the real lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children, old people, real lesson · **What happens:** run, scream, be · **To what, where:** film, care home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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/77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a film, children run screaming from a care home because «old people are creepy».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:1
# text = In a film, children run screaming from a care home because «old people are creepy».
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | children |  |  | a film |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  | a care home |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | old people |  |  |  |  | creepy *property* | tree rules |

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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's the real lesson?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:2
# text = What's the real lesson?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Old people don't like children at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:o1:1
# text = Old people don't like children at all
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Old people | children |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |

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

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Old people are people who love visits and chats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:o2:1
# text = Old people are people who love visits and chats
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Old people | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | present | people | visits and chats |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Children should never visit care homes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:o3:1
# text = Children should never visit care homes
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **visit** | should | Children | care |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Care homes really are scary places, like in the film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old:t8:o4:1
# text = Care homes really are scary places, like in the film
1	Care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Care homes | scary places |  |  |  |  | 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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