Test 10 · Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»

«Who'd look after me if you both carked it?» asks Isla in Melbourne (carked it = died). Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Isla, it · What happens: look, cark, ask, die · To what, where: it, Isla · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 70 «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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: «Who'd look after me if you both carked it?» asks Isla in Melbourne (carked it = died).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asks	ccomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 carked	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 carked	nsubj
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 carked	advmod
10	carked	cark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carked	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
14	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asks	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Melbourne	case
17	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Isla	nmod
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 carked	punct
19	carked	cark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Isla	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
21	=	=	SYM	_	22 died	punct
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carked	conj
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 carked	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	would			after Isla		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cark a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	it		both property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present	Isla				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cark	participle		Isla not said here			tree rules
5	die	past	it				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: 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

Nobody; you'd have to look after yourself from then on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nobody	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 yourself	case
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 look	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 then	case
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 look	obl
12	on	on	ADV	_	7 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	you						tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here				after yourself		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from then=Theme

Option 2

Don't ask, it's bad luck to talk about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 luck	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 luck	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 luck	cop
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luck	amod
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	it	bad luck		tree rules
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		about luck	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3

The police would come and take you away to a prison for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 police	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 prison	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 prison	det
11	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	the police						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away	infinitive	the police not said here	you				to a prison; for children; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's very unlikely; and we've planned who'd look after you

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	4 unlikely	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unlikely	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 unlikely	advmod
4	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 planned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 planned	cc
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 planned	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 planned	aux
9	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 unlikely	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 look	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 planned	parataxis
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			unlikely property	tree rules
2	plan	present · perfect	we			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	look	would		after you		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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