Test 11 · ★★ · Living well because life is short

Myth to check: «Thinking about death makes life gloomy and pointless.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Myth, Thinking · What happens: check, think, make · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 76 «Living well because life is short» 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 Thinking	punct
6	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 makes	csubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Thinking	obl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 check	parataxis
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
11	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pointless	cc
13	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gloomy	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth			tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	gerund			about death	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about death=Topic
3	make in a quote	present	Thinking	life	gloomy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=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 · ← Mova's choice

True, because nothing can last for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 last	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 last	mark
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 last	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 last	aux
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	can	nothing						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

False, but only for very old people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 people	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

True; you should never think about it, not even once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 not	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 once	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 think	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	should	you					about it; once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False; it can help people live more fully and kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 False	parataxis
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	obj
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 fully	advmod
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	7 live	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kindly	cc
11	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	9 fully	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	it	people					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	live	infinitive	people not said here					fully property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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