Test 3 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears

Which is true about anger?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 anger	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about anger; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Catching it early makes it easier to calm down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Catching	obj
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 makes	advmod
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 calm	mark
8	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easier	xcomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 calm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	gerund		it		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	present	Catching	it	early, easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	calm down	to-infinitive				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Anger has no warning signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 signs	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	compound
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Anger	no warning signs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient

Option 3

Anger is always wrong to feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feel	mark
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Anger					always, wrong property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	Anger not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It is best to let it build up as long as possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 best	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 best	csubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 build	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 build	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 possible	mark
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		good property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	it		tree rules
3	build up	infinitive		long property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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