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title: What would happen if Holly expected that grief might come back on Mu… — Life and death: putting it all together · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Holly expected that grief might come back on Mum's birthday? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Life and death: putting it all together

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What would happen if Holly expected that grief might come back on Mum's birthday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Holly, grief · **What happens:** happen, expect, come back · **To what, where:** birthday

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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/80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together:t4:1
# text = What would happen if Holly expected that grief might come back on Mum's birthday?
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	Holly	Holly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	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 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Holly |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** *not said to happen* | might | grief |  |  | Mum's birthday |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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It would stop grief coming back at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together:t4:o1:1
# text = It would stop grief coming back at all
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	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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 | **stop** | would | It | grief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | gerund |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She would forget the birthday entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together:t4:o2:1
# text = She would forget the birthday entirely
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	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | She | the birthday |  |  |  | entirely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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She'd be less shocked, and could plan something special

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together:t4:o3:1
# text = She'd be less shocked, and could plan something special
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | She |  |  |  |  | less, shocked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plan** | could | She *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would make the day much worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together:t4:o4:1
# text = It would make the day much worse
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	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | It |  |  |  | day | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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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