Test 5 · Boredom, excitement and pride

Why do people like it when you wait for a pause before speaking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, wait, speak · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	advcl
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wait	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 wait	nsubj
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 pause	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pause	det
11	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 speaking	mark
13	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wait	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	you not said here	people	like it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality
2	wait	present	you		for a pause	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	gerund	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

It makes your news sound more exciting

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 news	nmod:poss
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 exciting	advmod
7	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	your news					tree rules
2	sound	infinitive	your news not said here					exciting property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It gives you time to forget what you wanted to say

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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 forget	mark
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 forget	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	present	It		you	time	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	forget	to-infinitive		time			tree rules
3	want	past	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It shows you are not interested in them

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 interested	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interested	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 interested	advmod
6	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 interested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	you					in them = they; interested property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They feel respected because they can finish

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	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feel	xcomp
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 finish	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finish	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 finish	aux
7	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 respected	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	feel	present	They	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	respect	participle	They not said here	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	finish	can	they	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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