Test 9 · Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poo…

Zara's cousin: "People in Chad die younger 'cause they're just less healthy people, innit." What's fairer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: People · What happens: die, be, innit · To what, where: cousin, healthy people

This is test 9 of lesson 78 «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» of the history 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: Zara's cousin: "People in Chad die younger 'cause they're just less healthy people, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Zara	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
6	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 die	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Chad	case
8	Chad	Chad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 People	nmod
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cousin	acl:relcl
10	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 die	xcomp
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 younger	punct
12	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	18 people	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 people	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 people	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 people	advmod
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 healthy	advmod
17	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 die	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 die	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present	People in Chad	Zara's cousin not said here	young property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	People	healthy people		tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	People in Chad not said here			tree rules

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 fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Health care, wealth and peace make the big difference, not the people themselves

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 care	compound
2	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wealth	punct
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 care	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 peace	cc
6	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 care	conj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 difference	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 difference	amod
10	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 people	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 difference	nmod
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Health care and wealth and peace	the big difference the people care					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product

Option 2

It is because of the weather only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weather	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weather	cop
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 weather	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 because	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 weather	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					because the weather	tree rules

Option 3

People there are born weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	nsubj:pass
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 People	expl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 born	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		People				weak property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

People in Chad live longer than in Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Chad	case
3	Chad	Chad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 live	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 Japan	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Japan	case
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	People in Chad					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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