Test 5 · ★ · Worry and sadness

Which helps stop worries from taking over the whole day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: help, stop, take · To what, where: worries

This is test 5 · ★ 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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
4	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 taking	mark
6	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stop	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	help	present			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	worries		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality worry=Eventuality
3	take	gerund		day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Thinking hard about each worry as it comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 comes	csubj
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Thinking	advmod
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 worry	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 worry	det
5	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worry	nmod
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						about each worry as worry; hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic
2	come	present	Thinking						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Never talking about worries with anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 talking	advmod
2	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 worries	case
4	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talking	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	gerund						about worries; with anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic with anyone=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A short worry time each day to talk them through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
3	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obj
10	through	through	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive		them = they				through property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Staying away from school when worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Staying	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Staying	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 worried	advmod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Staying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	gerund				school		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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