Exam question 1 · Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the safety of sleep for healthy children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: safety

This is exam question 1 of lesson 70 «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 safety	det
10	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 safety	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 safety	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the safety of sleep				of the following statements; for healthy children; accurately property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sleep is safe only for children above the age of twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	obl
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 age	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 age	det
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 twelve	case
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 age	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sleep				above the age of twelve	for children; safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sleep is safe and beneficial, and death during it is extremely rare for healthy children

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 beneficial	cc
5	beneficial	beneficial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rare	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rare	cc
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rare	nsubj
9	during	during	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 death	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rare	cop
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	13 rare	advmod
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sleep	safe property	tree rules
2	be		Sleep not said here		tree rules
3	is	present	death during Sleep	for healthy children; extremely, rare property	tree rules

Option 3

Sleep is safe only in the presence of a light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 presence	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 presence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 presence	det
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 light	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 presence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sleep			the presence of a light		safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Sleep presents a grave danger to healthy children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presents	nsubj
2	presents	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 danger	det
4	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 danger	compound
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presents	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 danger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	present	Sleep	a grave danger	healthy children				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent danger=Theme to child=Recipient

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