Test 11 · ★ · Nightmares after a scary game

Teacher: «Why do scary images stay with us so long?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scary images · What happens: stay · To what, where: Teacher

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 402 «Nightmares after a scary game» 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	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 images	amod
7	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	nsubj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stay	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stay	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote	present · do-support	scary images	Teacher				with us; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

The brain stores danger strongly to protect us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	nsubj
3	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	obj
5	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	3 stores	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 protect	mark
7	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stores	advcl
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	the brain	danger				strongly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive	the brain not said here		us				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

Option 2

They don't, that's a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 myth	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 myth	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 myth	det
8	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	They						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	a myth					tree rules

Option 3

They are printed on our dreams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 printed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 printed	aux:pass
3	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 dreams	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dreams	nmod:poss
6	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	present · passive		They		our dreams			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on dream=Destination
2	dream		our						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Our eyes take photos of them like a camera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 photos	nmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 camera	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 camera	det
9	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Our eyes	photos of photos				like a camera	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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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