Test 8 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears
A boy keeps watching news about war and feels frightened all the time. What would help most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: keep, watch, feel, frighten, help · To what, where: news
This is test 8 · ★ 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 keeps watching news about war and feels frightened all the time.
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 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feels | cc |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeps | conj |
| 10 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 feels | xcomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frightened | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a boy not said here | news | about war | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | present | a boy not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | frighten | participle | a boy not said here | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: What would help most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Keeping the fear a secret
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fear | det |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | the fear | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Staying awake to watch the late news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Staying | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 watch | mark |
| 4 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Staying | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | gerund | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the late news | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
Option 3
Watching more news to understand everything that is going on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 understand | mark |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Watching | advcl |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 understand | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 everything | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | more news | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go on | present · progressive | that | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Watching less news and talking with an adult about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talking | cc |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Watching | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 adult | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 adult | det |
| 8 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 adult | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | less news | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | with a adult about adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adult=Co-Agent |
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