Test 8 · ★ · Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment

Myth to check: «If a child is very naughty, it can make their mum ill.»

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Myth, child · What happens: check, be, make · To what, where: mum

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 67 «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 naughty	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Myth	acl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 naughty	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 naughty	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 naughty	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 naughty	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 naughty	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 naughty	advmod
11	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 naughty	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mum	nmod:poss
17	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 make	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 naughty	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 naughty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Myth		naughty property	tree rules
3	make in a quote	can	child	their mum	ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material mum=Product

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.

The options

Option 1

True; stress from children causes cancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stress	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stress	nmod
6	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	True stress from children	cancer					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cancer=Patient

Option 2

False, but only for dads, not mums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dads	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dads	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dads	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 dads	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dads	case
6	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mums	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 mums	advmod
9	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dads	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

False; behaviour doesn't cause illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 behaviour	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cause	advmod
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cause	present · do-support	False behaviour	illness					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

True, but only if the child is very bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bad	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bad	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 bad	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 bad	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bad	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bad	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 bad	advmod
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj

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

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