Test 10 · When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief

Hannah keeps thinking: "If I worry hard enough, Grandma won't die tonight." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hannah, Grandma · What happens: keep, think, worry, not die, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 1 «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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: Hannah keeps thinking: "If I worry hard enough, Grandma won't die tonight."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 worry	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 worry	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 worry	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 worry	nsubj
8	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	parataxis
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 worry	advmod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
12	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 die	advmod
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worry	parataxis
16	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Hannah			tree rules
2	think speech: other	gerund	Hannah not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	worry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Hannah		hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	not die in a quote	future	Grandma	tonight		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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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 · ← Mova's choice

Worrying very hard every night really can keep someone alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worrying	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	csubj
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 hard	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Worrying	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worrying	obl:unmarked
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 keep	obj
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	gerund					night	hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	can	Worrying	someone				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 2

If she stops worrying, it will be her fault if Grandma dies in the night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 stops	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fault	advcl
4	worrying	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stops	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fault	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fault	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fault	cop
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fault	nmod:poss
10	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 dies	mark
12	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 dies	nsubj
13	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fault	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stop a condition, not said to happen	present	she			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	worry	gerund	she not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	future	it	her fault		tree rules
4	die a condition, not said to happen	present	Grandma		night	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Worrying is a magic shield, so she should never stop doing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worrying	worrying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shield	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shield	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shield	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shield	amod
5	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 stop	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shield	conj
12	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Worrying	a magic shield	tree rules
2	not stop	should	she		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	do	gerund	she not said here	Worrying	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Worry cannot change what happens; asking questions out loud helps more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 asking	punct
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 helps	csubj
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asking	obj
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 loud	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	8 asking	advmod
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	parataxis
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not change	can	Worry			tree rules
2	happen	present				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund		questions	loud property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	help	present	asking			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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