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Test 7 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them

Big sister, scrolling at midnight: "just checking if the war's over, then I'll sleep, promise." Why is this a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big sister, war, I, this · What happens: scroll, check, be, sleep, promise · To what, where: bad idea

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: Big sister, scrolling at midnight: "just checking if the war's over, then I'll sleep, promise."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scrolling	punct
4	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sister	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scrolling	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 checking	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 checking	advmod
10	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sister	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 over	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 war	det
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 over	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 over	cop
15	over	over	ADV	_	10 checking	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sleep	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sleep	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sleep	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sleep	aux
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 checking	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct
22	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sleep	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scroll	gerund	Big sister not said here				midnight		tree rules
2	check in a quote	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the war					over property	tree rules
4	sleep in a quote	future	I				then		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	infinitive	I not said here						vn promise-37.13 «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: Why is this a bad idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 idea	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a bad idea					tree rules

The options

Option 1

She'll miss the end if she sleeps now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miss	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sleeps	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sleeps	nsubj
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	advcl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sleeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	future	She	the end					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus
2	sleep a condition, not said to happen	present	she				now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Phones explode if used after midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explode	nsubj
2	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 used	mark
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 explode	advcl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	present	Phones						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	participle	Phones not said here				midnight		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Checking again and again keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	csubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Checking	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 again	cc
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 again	conj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 worry	det
7	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 makes	cc
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keeps	conj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 makes	obj
12	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund					again		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	Checking	the worry					tree rules
3	go	gerund	the worry not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present	Checking not said here	nobody				safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nobody=Product

Option 4

The war will only end if someone watches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 end	advmod
5	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 watches	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 watches	nsubj
8	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 end	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	future	the war						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	watch a condition, not said to happen	present	someone						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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