Test 8 · ★ · Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment

Which habit makes children happier in the long run?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: habit · What happens: make · To what, where: children

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 92 «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 habit	det
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 run	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 run	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 run	amod
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happier	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	which habit	children				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product

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

Keeping a list of what others have that they do not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 list	det
3	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 list	nmod
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keeping	advcl
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	gerund		a list	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
2	have	present	others		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not do	present	others = other		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Wanting whatever their friends get

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 get	obj
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wanting	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get	present	their friends	whatever					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus

Option 3

Comparing their things with everyone else's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 things	nmod:poss
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Comparing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Comparing	obl
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 everyone	advmod
7	's	's	PART	_	5 everyone	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	gerund		their things				with everyone	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient with everyone=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Being grateful for what they have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grateful	cop
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 grateful	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						grateful property	tree rules
2	have	present	they						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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