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Test 8 · ★★ · Dementia and the first death in the family

Olly can't sleep: «what if you die tomorrow??» What's the most helpful thing for him to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Olly, you, helpful thing · What happens: not sleep, die, be, do

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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: Olly can't sleep: «what if you die tomorrow??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olly	Olly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sleep	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 die	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
10	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	obl:unmarked
12	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	can	Olly						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				tomorrow		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's the most helpful thing for him to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the helpful thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Olly						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep the worry secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
3	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 secret	compound
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the worry secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 2

Stay awake all night guarding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl:unmarked
5	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				night	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guard	gerund	you not said here						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Google scary things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Google	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask Mum and talk about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 talk	cc
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Mum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	talk	infinitive	you not said here					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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