Test 6 · ★ · Facing fears

What usually makes a worry smaller?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: worry

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing fears» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 makes	obj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 worry	det
5	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		a worry				small, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary worry=Product

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

Looking for more scary facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 facts	case
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 scary	advmod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 facts	amod
5	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for scary facts	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fact=Theme

Option 2

Thinking about it alone every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thinking	obl
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Thinking	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund					night	about it; alone property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Talking about it with someone you trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Talking	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Talking	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 trust	nsubj
7	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						about it; with someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with someone=Co-Agent
2	trust	present	you						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Keeping it a secret until it goes away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeping	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keeping	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		it					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme secret=Attribute
2	go away	present	secret					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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