Test 8 · ★ · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…

Which is TRUE about courage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	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 courage	case
5	courage	courage	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 courage; 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

You either have it from birth or you never will, however hard you try

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 birth	case
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 will	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 will	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 will	advmod
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
12	however	however	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 try	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 try	nsubj
15	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	it		birth		either property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	try	present	you					hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It grows by small steps, like learning to swim bit by bit

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	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 steps	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 learning	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 learning	mark
8	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grows	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swim	mark
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learning	xcomp
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 bit	case
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It		by small steps	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by step=Location
2	learn	gerund				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	to-infinitive		bit	by bit	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Trajectory

Option 3

It means doing dangerous things alone

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 doing	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	gerund		dangerous things				alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 4

It means never feeling scared

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 feeling	advmod
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not feel not said to happen	gerund						scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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