Test 2 · Boredom, excitement and pride

Which is true about boredom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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	_	5 boredom	case
5	boredom	boredom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about boredom; 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 · ← Mova's choice

It is always someone else's job to fix it

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	7 job	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 job	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 job	advmod
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 job	nmod:poss
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 someone	advmod
6	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fix	mark
9	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 job	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	someone's job				always property	tree rules
2	fix	to-infinitive		job					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It only happens to children without toys

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	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 toys	case
7	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					to children; without toys	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It means something is wrong with you

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 wrong	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	something					with you; wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Learning to deal with it is a useful skill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 skill	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 deal	mark
3	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learning	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deal	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 skill	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skill	det
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skill	amod
9	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deal	to-infinitive			with it	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme
3	is a	present	Learning	a useful skill		tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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