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Test 4 · Sam is scared: fear is normal

Grandad, grumpy: «In my day lads didn't get scared». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not get, be · To what, where: day lads

This is test 4 of lesson 366 «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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: Grandad, grumpy: «In my day lads didn't get scared».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grumpy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grumpy	punct
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
6	In	in	ADP	_	9 lads	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lads	nmod:poss
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lads	compound
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obl
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	parataxis
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grumpy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get in a quote	past · do-support				my day lads		scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Everybody gets scared, then and now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 gets	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 now	cc
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 then	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Everybody				then	scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Children were braver in the old days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 braver	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 braver	cop
3	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 braver	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Children				day	brave property	tree rules

Option 3

Grown-ups were never scared at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	Grown ups			school		scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Only modern children feel fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 children	advmod
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	modern children	fear					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme

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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