Test 10 · ★ · Worry and sadness

Why is it good to tell someone a worry rather than keep it secret?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, tell, keep · To what, where: worry, someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 good	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	expl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 tell	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 worry	det
9	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 keep	cc
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 rather	fixed
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			good property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a worry	someone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient worry=Topic
3	keep	infinitive	worry		secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the worry belong to them instead

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 worry	det
4	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the worry	them = they			instead property	tree rules
2	belong	present	the worry not said here						vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They will take away every bad thing that could happen, for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADP	_	3 take	compound:prt
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 thing	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happen	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 good	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	future	They	every bad thing					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	happen	could	every bad thing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They can listen, help and remind you that you are not alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 listen	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	aux
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listen	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 remind	cc
7	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listen	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 remind	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 alone	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 alone	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 alone	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 alone	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remind	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	can	They			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	help	infinitive	They not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	remind speech: other	infinitive	They not said here	you		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not is	present	you		alone property	tree rules

Option 4

They will tell you that worries are silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 silly	mark
6	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silly	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 silly	cop
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	They		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present	worries					silly property	tree rules

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