Test 1 · ★ · Worry and sadness
Mia keeps imagining that her house will catch fire tonight. What is the wisest thought?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, house, the · What happens: keep, imagine, catch, be, think · To what, where: fire
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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: Mia keeps imagining that her house will catch fire tonight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | imagining | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imagining | advcl |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Mia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | imagine | gerund | Mia not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | catch | future | Mia's house | fire | tonight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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 is the wisest thought?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 the | nmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wisest | acl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
I must stay awake all night to watch for fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | must | I | night | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | I not said here | for fire | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for fire=Theme |
Option 2
It will surely happen because I keep thinking about it
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 | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | It | surely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | about it | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is very unlikely, and we have smoke alarms if it did
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 | 4 unlikely | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlikely | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 unlikely | advmod |
| 4 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlikely | conj |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alarms | compound |
| 10 | alarms | alarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | unlikely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | smoke alarms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Thinking about it more will keep the house safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 keep | csubj |
| 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 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Thinking | advmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | about it | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | future | Thinking | the house | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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