Test 10 · ★ · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…

scared of deep water but they're calling me a baby

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 319 «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scared	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 calling	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 calling	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 calling	aux
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 scared	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 calling	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	they	me					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme baby=Result

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

Jump in to prove them wrong

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	to	to	PART	_	4 prove	mark
4	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Jump	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prove	obj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prove	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prove	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Swim out further than them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Swim	advmod
3	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Swim	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 further	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	imperative	you not said here					far, out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Go in without telling an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 telling	mark
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Go	advcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stay out; your fear is protecting you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Stay	compound:prt
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 protecting	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fear	nmod:poss
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protecting	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 protecting	aux
7	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stay	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 protecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	stay out	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	protect	present · progressive	your fear	you	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	fear		your		nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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