Test 7 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

Why is it a good idea to wait until you are calm before solving a quarrel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, wait, solve · To what, where: good idea, quarrel

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	csubj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 calm	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 calm	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 calm	cop
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wait	advcl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 solving	mark
14	solving	solve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 calm	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quarrel	det
16	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 solving	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good idea		tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	you		calm property	tree rules
4	solve	gerund	you not said here	a quarrel		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Topic

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

So the other person forgets what happened and you never have to talk about it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 forgets	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgets	nsubj
5	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgets	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forgets	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 talk	mark
13	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	forget	present	the other person		tree rules
2	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not have	present	you		tree rules
4	talk	to-infinitive	you not said here	about person	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2

Because calm people always win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 win	mark
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 win	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 win	advmod
5	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	calm people					always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because the quarrel will solve itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 solve	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 quarrel	det
3	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solve	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 solve	aux
5	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 solve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	future	the quarrel	quarrel					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

When you are calm you can think and listen better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 calm	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 calm	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calm	cop
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 calm	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 listen	cc
9	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	conj
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 listen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	you	calm property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	can	you		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive	you not said here	well property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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