Test 3 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

Why do routines help after a big change?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: routines · What happens: help

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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	4 help	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	routines	routine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 change	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 change	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 change	amod
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	routines				after a big change		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

Routines make you forget the change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Routines	routine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 change	det
6	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Routines	you					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	the change					tree rules

Option 2

Routines are only meant for very young children who cannot cope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Routines	routine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 young	advmod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cope	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cope	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cope	advmod
12	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 children	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		Routines				for young children	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for child=Attribute
2	not cope	can	young children						vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Familiar things make you feel steady and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Familiar things	you					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	you not said here					steady property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Routines stop the change from happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Routines	routine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 change	det
4	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 happening	mark
6	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Routines	the change					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality change=Eventuality
2	happen	gerund	Routines not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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