Test 2 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

Which is true about loneliness?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 loneliness	case
5	loneliness	loneliness	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 loneliness; 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

Only children with no family feel lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive	children with no family					lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many children feel it, and clubs and buddies can help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
7	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 help	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buddies	cc
9	buddies	buddy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clubs	conj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Many children	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	help	can	clubs and buddies						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Loneliness means that nobody will ever like you, however hard you try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 like	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 try	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
13	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Loneliness				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	future	nobody	you	ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
3	try	present	you			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Lonely children should wait to be found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wait	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 found	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	should	Lonely children						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive · passive	Lonely children not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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