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Test 3 · ★ · Scary films, nightmares and sad endings

Big brother to little sister: "Jump scares only work if you don't know they're coming, so I'm not scared." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scares, you, I · What happens: jump, work, not know, come, not be, put · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 56 «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» 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 brother to little sister: "Jump scares only work if you don't know they're coming, so I'm not scared."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sister	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Jump	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Jump	punct
8	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 brother	parataxis
9	scares	scare	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 work	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 work	advmod
11	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Jump	ccomp
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 know	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 work	ccomp
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 coming	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 coming	aux
19	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 know	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 scared	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 scared	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 scared	nsubj
23	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 scared	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 scared	advmod
25	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Jump	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Jump	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Jump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
2	work in a quote	present	scares						tree rules
3	not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come in a quote	present · progressive	scares = scare						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is in a quote	present	I					scared property	tree rules

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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		him = he			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Jump scares often work even when you expect them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scares	compound
2	scares	scare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	8 expect	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 expect	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 expect	nsubj
8	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Jump scares					often property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	expect	present	you	scares = scare					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Jump scares only work if the sound is off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scares	nsubj
2	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scares	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 off	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 off	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 off	cop
9	off	off	ADV	_	2 scares	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	present	Jump	work					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus work=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the sound					off property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Jump scares only work on very young children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scares	compound
2	scares	scare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 children	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 young	advmod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Jump scares					on young children	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on child=Theme

Option 4

He's right, they never work at all if you know they're coming

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 work	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 work	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 know	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 coming	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not work	present	they					at all	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme
3	know a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	present · progressive	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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