Test 8 · ★★ · Anger and fears
A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep. What helps?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: keep, see, not sleep, help · To what, where: frightening news
This is test 8 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeing | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 war | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 war | det |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 TV | case |
| 11 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 war | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sleep | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sleep | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 sleep | advmod |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keeps | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a boy not said here | frightening news | about a war on TV | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not sleep | can | a boy not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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: What helps?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Pretend he is fine and say nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretend | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 say | cc |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pretend | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | he | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | you not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
Option 2
Watch more to understand everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Watch | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 understand | mark |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Watch | xcomp |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 understand | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | more | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | more not said here | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
Option 3
Keep the TV on all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 TV | det |
| 3 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the TV | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ask an adult to explain and limit how much news he watches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 limit | cc |
| 7 | limit | limit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 explain | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 news | amod |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 limit | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watches | nsubj |
| 12 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 news | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | limit | infinitive | you not said here | much news | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer news=Patient | ||||
| 4 | watch | present | adult | much news not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
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