Test 8 · Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»

«Biscuit's gonna live forever right?? he's a good boy,» says Josh's little brother. What's the true answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gonna, little brother, true answer · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: «Biscuit's gonna live forever right?? he's a good boy,» says Josh's little brother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
2	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gonna	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Biscuit	case
4	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 says	ccomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
7	right	right	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boy	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 brother	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Josh	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	gonna	a good boy					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Josh's little brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: What's the true answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the true answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you feed him every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 feed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 feed	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 feed	nsubj
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	you		him = he		day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, good dogs who behave live as long as people do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 behave	nsubj
6	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dogs	acl:relcl
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 live	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	behave	present	good dogs		vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	good dogs	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	people		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dogs usually live 10 to 15 years, so love him now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 15	case
6	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 10	nmod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 love	advmod
10	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 live	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 love	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 love	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Dogs				year	usually property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	infinitive	Dogs not said here	him = he			now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

Dogs only die if they are naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 naughty	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 naughty	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 naughty	cop
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 die	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Dogs						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Dogs = dog					naughty property	tree rules

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