Exam question 4 · Handling anger and everyday fears

State the measure appropriate after viewing a frightening film.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, view · To what, where: measure, frightening film

This is exam question 4 of lesson 291 «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 measure	det
3	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 State	xcomp
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 viewing	mark
6	viewing	view	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 State	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 film	det
8	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 film	amod
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 viewing	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the measure				appropriate property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent measure=Topic
2	view	gerund	you not said here	a frightening film					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus

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

Sleeping with every light switched on all night for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 light	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleeping	obl
5	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 light	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switched	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund					week	with every light	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	switch	participle		every light not said here			night		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Speaking with a parent and doing something calm before bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 parent	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 doing	cc
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Speaking	conj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 doing	obj
8	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						with a parent	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with parent=Co-Agent
2	do	gerund		something			before bed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 3

Watching a further frightening film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
4	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		a further frightening film					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme

Option 4

Remaining awake until the fear has passed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remaining	xcomp
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 passed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fear	det
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Remaining	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund						awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present · perfect	the fear						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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