Test 9 · Boredom, excitement and pride

How can a feelings diary help you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: feelings diary · What happens: help · To what, where: you

This is test 9 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 diary	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 diary	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 diary	det
4	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 diary	compound
5	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	a feelings diary		you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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 replaces talking to anyone about feelings

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 replaces	nsubj
2	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 replaces	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 talking	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 feelings	case
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	present	It						tree rules
2	talk	gerund						to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 2

It tells other people how they should be feeling each day

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 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tells	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 feeling	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeling	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feeling	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 feeling	aux
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tells	ccomp
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeling	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	It		other people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	should · progressive	people				day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It stops you from having bad feelings

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stops	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 having	mark
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feelings	amod
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	you					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality
2	have	gerund		bad feelings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

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

It shows patterns in what makes you happy or upset

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	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shows	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 makes	mark
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 upset	cc
10	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 happy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	patterns					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent pattern=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	present		you				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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