Test 9 · ★ · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…

What is TRUE about boredom?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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 boredom	case
5	boredom	boredom	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 boredom; 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

It only goes away with a screen

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	3 goes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 screen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 screen	det
7	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	It					with a screen; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with screen=Beneficiary

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

It can be the start of being creative

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	5 start	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 start	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 creative	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 creative	cop
8	creative	creative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	It	the start					tree rules
2	is	gerund						creative property	tree rules

Option 3

It is a sign that something is wrong

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	4 sign	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sign	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wrong	mark
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 wrong	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sign	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sign					tree rules
2	is	present	something	a sign not said here				wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

It is always a waste of time

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	5 waste	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 waste	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 waste	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 waste	det
5	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a waste			time	always 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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