Test 12 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

my sister says nan died cos she went to sleep, true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, nan · What happens: say, die, go, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Family changes and grief» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 died	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	nan	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	past	nan	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	nan not said here	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, sleep can make old people just stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	sleep	old people					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	stop	present	sleep not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Only a very long, deep sleep does that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 sleep	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleep	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a long deep sleep	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, so try hard to stay awake at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 try	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 try	advmod
4	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 try	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
8	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				night	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, sleeping does not cause death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cause	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cause	advmod
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cause	present · do-support	sleeping	death					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient

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