Test 4 · ★ · Feelings and calming down
A girl in Phoenix is nervous about her first swimming lesson. What could help her most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, help · To what, where: girl
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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: A girl in Phoenix is nervous about her first swimming lesson.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nervous | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Phoenix | case |
| 4 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nervous | cop |
| 6 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 lesson | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 lesson | amod |
| 10 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lesson | compound |
| 11 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nervous | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nervous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a girl in Phoenix | about girl's first swimming lesson; nervous 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: What could help her most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Telling her mum how she feels and taking slow breaths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 feels | csubj |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 feels | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feels | nsubj |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taking | cc |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 feels | conj |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 breaths | amod |
| 10 | breaths | breath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | her mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | she | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | she not said here | slow breaths | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
Option 2
Hiding the feeling so nobody knows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feeling | det |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiding | obj |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 6 knows | mark |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 knows | nsubj |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hiding | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | the feeling | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Telling herself again and again that only babies get nervous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 nervous | csubj |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 babies | advmod |
| 8 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 10 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | herself = she | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | present | babies | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Pretending to be ill so she can stay home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stay | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ill | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | can | she | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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