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Test 9 · Getting old: how long people and animals live

A wise judge asks: «Why might people in some places die younger, and what could be done?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wise judge, people · What happens: ask, die, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 52 «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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 wise judge asks: «Why might people in some places die younger, and what could be done?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 judge	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 judge	amod
3	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
7	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 die	advmod
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 die	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 places	det
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	nmod
13	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
14	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 die	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 done	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 done	obj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asks	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a wise judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die in a quote	might	people in some places					young property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	do in a quote	could · passive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Short lives are always the people's own fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lives	amod
2	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 always	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 always	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fault	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 people	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fault	amod
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 always	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Short lives					always property	tree rules
2	fault		the people						nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Poverty and war harm health; people can help with clean water, food and doctors

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 health	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 harm	cc
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harm	compound
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	conj
5	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 help	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 help	aux
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 health	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 help	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 doctors	cc
16	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	people	Poverty health not said here				with clean water and food and doctors	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent health=Beneficiary with water=Theme

Option 3

Long lives come only from luck, so helping is pointless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lives	amod
2	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 luck	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 luck	case
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helping	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 helping	advmod
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 come	advcl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pointless	cop
11	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 helping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Long lives			luck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from luck=Initial_Location
2	help	gerund	Long lives not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Long lives not said here					pointless property	tree rules

Option 4

Some people are simply born weaker, and nothing can be done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 born	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 born	advmod
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 born	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 done	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 done	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 born	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		some people				simply, weak property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	do	can · passive		nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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