Test 15 · ★ · Worry and sadness

been sad every day for weeks, not gonna tell anyone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, not tell · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sad	cop
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sad	obl:unmarked
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sad	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 tell	dep
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sad	parataxis
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle					day; week	sad property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive			anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult, they can help it get better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	help	can	they	adult			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	get	infinitive	adult not said here			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Only tell your pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pet	nmod:poss
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your pet				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient

Option 3

Pretend to be happy forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 happy	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	xcomp
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 happy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					forever, happy property	tree rules

Option 4

Keep it in, sadness always goes away on its own if u wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 goes	advmod
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 goes	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goes	obl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 wait	mark
13	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wait	nsubj
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep in	imperative	you not said here	it			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go away	present	sadness		sadness's own	always, away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location
3	wait a condition, not said to happen	present	u				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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