Test 8 · ★★ · When someone dies

Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, Uncle · What happens: worry, die, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 24 «When someone dies» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your sister worries, "Uncle died suddenly, so Dad's gonna die suddenly too."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worries	nsubj
3	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
6	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worries	ccomp
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
11	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 die	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Dad	case
13	gonna	gonna	PART	_	14 die	mark
14	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 worries	parataxis
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worries	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 worries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	worry	present	Your sister		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die in a quote	past	Uncle	suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die in a quote	infinitive		suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Sudden deaths are rare in healthy people, and she can ask a grown-up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 deaths	amod
2	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rare	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rare	cop
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rare	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	aux
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rare	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 up	det
14	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 up	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
16	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sudden deaths					in healthy people; rare property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	can	she	a grown up					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

Option 2

She is right, sudden death runs in every family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 runs	punct
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 death	amod
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	run	present	sudden death			every family			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Dad will certainly die soon too, because Uncle did and they are brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 die	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 die	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brothers	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brothers	cop
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	future	Dad		certainly, soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	do	past	Uncle			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	they	brothers		tree rules

Option 4

Nobody should ever talk about this with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 talk	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	should	Nobody				ever	about this; with her = she	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about this=Topic with she=Co-Agent

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