Test 2 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

★★★ Which sentence shows that Tom is nervous without using any feeling word?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Tom · What happens: show, be, use · To what, where: feeling word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the English 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 sentence	det
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 nervous	mark
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nervous	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nervous	cop
10	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shows	ccomp
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 using	mark
12	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 nervous	advcl
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 word	det
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	compound
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 using	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	★ ★ ★			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Tom		nervous property	tree rules
3	use	gerund	Tom not said here	any feeling word		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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.

The options

Option 1

Tom was not calm at all, he was nervous.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 calm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 calm	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 calm	advmod
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 calm	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nervous	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nervous	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nervous	cop
10	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 calm	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 calm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Tom			all		calm property	tree rules
2	is	past	Tom					nervous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tom tapped his pencil, then tapped it again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tapped	nsubj
2	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pencil	nmod:poss
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tapped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tapped	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 tapped	advmod
7	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tapped	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tapped	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 tapped	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tapped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	Tom	Tom's pencil					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pencil=Location
2	tap	past		pencil			then; again		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 3

Tom felt nervousness in his nervous body.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nervousness	nervousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 body	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 body	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Tom	nervousness		Tom's nervous body			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nervousness=Theme in body=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tom was nervous and a bit worried today.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nervous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nervous	cop
3	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worried	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worried	obl:unmarked
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nervous	conj
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nervous	obl:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nervous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom				today	nervous property	tree rules
2	be		Tom not said here	a bit					tree rules

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