Test 17 · ★★ · Anger and fears

kept having bad dreams but scared to say

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: keep, have, say · To what, where: bad dreams · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 kept	xcomp
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dreams	amod
4	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 having	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 scared	cc
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 kept	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past		tree rules
2	have	gerund	bad dreams	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		vn say-37.7-1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

Watch scary films to get used to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 films	amod
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Watch	xcomp
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 get	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	scary films		tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	scary films not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	use	participle	scary films not said here		it	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Stay awake all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				night	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Keep quiet so nobody laughs at you about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 laughs	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 laughs	nsubj
5	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 laughs	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	present	nobody					at you; about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a parent, talking about fears helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talking	punct
5	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 helps	csubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 fears	case
7	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talking	obl
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	talk	gerund			about fears	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fear=Topic
3	help	present	talking			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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