Test 7 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments
A child is scared to fall asleep after a funeral. What is true and helpful to know?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: be, fall, know
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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
Sentence 1: A child is scared to fall asleep after a funeral.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scared | xcomp |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fall | xcomp |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 funeral | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 funeral | det |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a child | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | a child not said here | after a funeral | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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.
Sentence 2: What is true and helpful to know?
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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 helpful | cc |
| 5 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 true | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helpful | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1
People who sleep too long or too deeply often never wake up again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wake | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sleep | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 deeply | cc |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 deeply | advmod |
| 8 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 long | conj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 wake | advmod |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 wake | advmod |
| 11 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wake | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 wake | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | People | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not wake up | present | People | again | often property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sleeping does not cause death; death is when the body stops working forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cause | advmod |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 when | punct |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 when | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 when | cop |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stops | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stops | nsubj |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | advcl |
| 13 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stops | xcomp |
| 14 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 working | advmod |
| # | 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 | ||||
| 2 | is | present | death | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | the body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | work | gerund | the body not said here | forever property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only children who sleep too much fall ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 children | advmod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fall | amod |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obj |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sleep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | children | much fall | ill property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme |
Option 4
Going to sleep is a little like dying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 little | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 sleep | case |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 little | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 dying | mark |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 little | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Going | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | Going not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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