Test 8 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

Why is it smart to wonder «what might be going on for them?» when someone acts strangely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: be, wonder, go on, act · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about people» 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	4 smart	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smart	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smart	expl
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wonder	mark
6	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smart	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 going	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wonder	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 going	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smart	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 smart	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 acts	mark
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 acts	nsubj
19	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smart	advcl
20	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	19 acts	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		smart property	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go on in a quote	might · progressive		for them = they	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	act	present	someone	strangely property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It means you always forgive everything

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forgive	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 forgive	advmod
5	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 forgive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forgive	present	you	everything				always property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It helps you respond calmly instead of making things worse

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 respond	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 making	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 respond	advcl
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	obj
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 making	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	respond speech: other	infinitive	you not said here		calmly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	you not said here	things	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

Option 3

It proves that they are always right

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	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 right	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 right	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they					always, right property	tree rules

Option 4

It helps you find a clever way to get back at them later

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obl
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	find	infinitive	you not said here	a clever way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	get back	to-infinitive	you not said here	a clever way not said here	at them = they; late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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