Test 11 · Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»

Myth to check: «Talking about death makes it more likely to happen.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Myth, Talking · What happens: check, talk, make, happen · To what, where: Myth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 check	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Talking	punct
6	Talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	csubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Talking	obl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 check	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 happen	mark
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 likely	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth			tree rules
2	talk in a quote	gerund			about death	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about death=Topic
3	make in a quote	present	Talking	Myth	likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	happen in a quote	to-infinitive	Myth not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

True; you should never say the word «death» out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 death	punct
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 death	punct
12	out	out	ADV	_	13 loud	advmod
13	loud	loud	ADV	_	6 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	should	you	the word				loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

False; talking can make the fear smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talking	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 make	csubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fear	det
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	can	talking	the fear				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product

Option 3

True, but only if you talk about it at bedtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 talk	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 talk	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 bedtime	case
11	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	you	True		bedtime		about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

False, but only for grown-ups, not for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ups	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ups	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ups	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 ups	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 ups	case
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ups	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
8	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 children	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 children	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ups	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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