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Test 2 · ★ · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…

After a horror film at a friend's house, a boy is afraid of the dark. Which is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: After a horror film at a friend's house, a boy is afraid of the dark.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afraid	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 friend	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 film	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afraid	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 dark	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dark	det
17	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afraid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a boy				after a horror film at a friend's house	of the dark; afraid 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 is TRUE?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Talking about it makes the fear smaller

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 fear	det
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp

#	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 fear				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product

Option 2

Talking about it makes it come true

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	xcomp

#	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	it					tree rules
3	come	infinitive						true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He should never tell anyone about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	should	He		anyone			about it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4

Being scared means the film was real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scared	cop
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 real	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 real	cop
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						scared property	tree rules
2	mean	present	scared						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the film					real 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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