Test 14 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

been sad for ages, don't wanna do anything

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: anything

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sad	cop
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 ages	case
4	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sad	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
8	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 do	dep
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sad	parataxis
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle					for ages	sad property	tree rules
2	not do	infinitive · do-support		anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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

Pretend you're fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	ccomp

#	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	you					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Keep it in, it'll pass on its own soon enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pass	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pass	aux
7	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pass	obl
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 pass	advmod
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pass	future	it			its own		enough, soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location

Option 3

Stay in your room more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 room	nmod:poss
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			your room			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a parent or teacher how you feel

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	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 teacher	cc
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parent	conj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feel	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a parent or teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	present	you						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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