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Test 10 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried

You hear scary news about prices on the radio and Grandad switches it off. What's a good thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Grandad · What happens: hear, switch off, be, do · To what, where: scary news, news, good thing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 34 «When grown-ups are tired or worried» of the adult life 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: You hear scary news about prices on the radio and Grandad switches it off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 news	amod
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 prices	case
6	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 news	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 radio	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 radio	det
9	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prices	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 switches	cc
11	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 switches	nsubj
12	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 switches	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 switches	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	scary news				about prices on the radio	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
2	switch off	present	Grandad	news					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 a good thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep worrying about it on your own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	worrying	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worrying	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 worrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	worry	gerund	you not said here			your own		about it	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

Option 2

Turn it back on as loud as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
4	on	on	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Turn	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 can	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	imperative	you not said here	it				loud property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask him about it if it worries you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 worries	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worries	nsubj
7	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 worries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he			about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=Topic
2	worry a condition, not said to happen	present	it	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Option 4

Tell your friends that you're all poor now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 poor	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 poor	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poor	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 poor	advmod
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your friends		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
2	is	present	you					all, poor property	tree rules

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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