Test 17 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

Ava's telling everyone some boy watched a horror film at a sleepover n had nightmares so bad he never slept again, like ever. what's probably exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, sleepover n, n · What happens: tell, watch, have, not sleep, exaggerate · To what, where: everyone, horror film, nightmares · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 100 «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 boy	csubj
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 telling	iobj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	nsubj
7	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
9	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 film	compound
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	obj
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 n	det
13	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 n	compound
14	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bad	advcl
16	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 bad	advmod
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 watched	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slept	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 slept	advmod
21	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bad	parataxis
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 slept	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ever	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 slept	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 exaggerated	aux
29	probably	probably	ADV	_	30 exaggerated	advmod
30	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 watched	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			everyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	watch	past	Ava's boy	a horror film				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme
3	have	past	a sleepover n	nightmares				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightmare=Patient
4	not sleep	past	n			again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	exaggerate	present · passive					probably 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never sleeping again; scary films cause bad dreams, not endless waking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 sleeping	advmod
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 films	amod
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 sleeping	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 sleeping	punct
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 films	amod
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	nsubj
7	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dreams	amod
9	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waking	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 endless	advmod
12	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 waking	amod
13	waking	waking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	gerund					again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	present	sleeping scary films	bad dreams				endless waking obl	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dream=Patient

Option 2

That scary films can give anyone nightmares at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 films	nsubj
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 films	amod
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 nightmares	compound
7	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film		That						tree rules
2	give	can	scary films	anyone nightmares		all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nightmare=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

The part about the sleepover, because those never happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 sleepover	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sleepover	det
5	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happen	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 happen	mark
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 happen	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 happen	advmod
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 part	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	infinitive	those						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, since a nightmare really can stop a person ever sleeping again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 stop	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 nightmare	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nightmare	det
5	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 stop	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 sleeping	advmod
12	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stop	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	Nothing	a person					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality person=Eventuality
2	sleep	gerund	Nothing not said here				ever; again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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