Test 6 · ★ · Handling anger

After an angry shout at dinner, what repairs things best?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: repair · To what, where: things

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 89 «Handling anger» 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 shout	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shout	det
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shout	amod
4	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repairs	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 repairs	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 repairs	nsubj
9	repairs	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 repairs	obj
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 repairs	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 repairs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repair	present		things			after a angry shout at dinner		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.

The options

Option 1

Shouting again so that it is even

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 is	csubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Shouting	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 it	case
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 so	fixed
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shouting	obl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	6 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund					again	so it	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	Shouting						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Saying nothing and just waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waiting	cc
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 waiting	advmod
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Saying sorry once you are calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Saying	obj
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 calm	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 calm	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Saying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
2	is	present	you					calm property	tree rules

Option 4

Leaving the house without a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the house				without a word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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