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Test 6 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears

A boy saw a frightening scene in a film and keeps thinking about it. Why might talking to his mum help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: see, keep, think, talk, help · To what, where: frightening scene, film

This is test 6 · ★ 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 boy saw a frightening scene in a film and keeps thinking about it.

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 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scene	det
5	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scene	amod
6	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 film	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 film	det
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keeps	cc
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
12	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	xcomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thinking	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	a boy	a frightening scene		a film			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus
2	keep	present	a boy not said here						tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund	a boy not said here					about film	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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: Why might talking to his mum help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 talking	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 help	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 help	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	compound
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	might						to boy's mum help	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to help=Co-Agent
2	help		boy						nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

Talking only works for adults, not for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 children	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 children	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 adults	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work	present						for adults and children	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for adult=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

His mum will make him watch it all again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	His mum	him = he					tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	him = he not said here	it			again		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Talking about it makes the scene come true in real life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Talking	obl
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scene	det
6	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	make	present	Talking	the scene					tree rules
3	come	infinitive	the scene not said here			real life		true property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Talking about a fear makes it smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 fear	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fear	det
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						about a fear	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fear=Topic
2	make	present	Talking	fear				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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