Test 10 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears
A girl wants to swim in the deep end like her friends but is scared. Which plan is best?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, plan · What happens: want, swim, be · To what, where: deep end
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 291 «Handling anger and everyday 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 girl wants to swim in the deep end like her friends but is scared.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 swim | mark |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 end | amod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swim | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swim | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 scared | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 scared | cop |
| 15 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wants | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | in the deep end | like girl's friends | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | present | a girl not said here | scared 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.
Sentence 2: Which plan is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which plan | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Swim alone at night when nobody can see her practise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Swim | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swim | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 see | advmod |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Swim | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 practise | nmod:poss |
| 10 | practise | practise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | imperative | you not said here | night | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | can | nobody | her practise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer practise=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Practise step by step with a teacher while an adult watches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practise | practise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 step | compound |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 step | case |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 step | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teacher | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 teacher | det |
| 7 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 step | nmod |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 watches | mark |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watches | nsubj |
| 11 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 step | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | a adult | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | step | step with a teacher | nom step «act transitive»: by=agent |
Option 3
Give up swimming for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Give | compound:prt |
| 3 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 good | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | imperative | you not said here | swimming | for good | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimming=Source |
Option 4
Jump in with her friends when the lifeguard is away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Jump | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 friends | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jump | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 away | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lifeguard | det |
| 8 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Jump | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | imperative | you not said here | with her friends | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the lifeguard | away property | tree rules |
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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