Test 2 · ★ · Worry and sadness

Which is true about long worries and sadness?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 worries	case
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worries	amod
6	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sadness	cc
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worries	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about long worries and sadness; true property	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

They always go away if you ignore them

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 go	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ignore	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ignore	nsubj
7	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	They					always, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ignore a condition, not said to happen	present	you	them = they					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They are real problems, and adults and doctors can help

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	4 problems	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 problems	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 problems	amod
4	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 help	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doctors	cc
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adults	conj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 problems	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	real problems					tree rules
2	help	can	adults and doctors	real problems not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Beneficiary

Option 3

Only grown-ups can have them, never children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 children	advmod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	can	grown ups	them = they				children obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They are just weakness, so you should hide them and carry on

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	4 weakness	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weakness	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 weakness	advmod
4	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 hide	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 hide	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hide	aux
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weakness	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hide	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carry	cc
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hide	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 carry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	They	weakness	tree rules
2	hide	should	you	them = they	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	carry on	infinitive	you not said here		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

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