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Test 7 · Needles and brave faces

In a cartoon the hero laughs at a giant needle to look tough. What's real bravery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero, real bravery · What happens: laugh, look, be

This is test 7 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon the hero laughs at a giant needle to look tough.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughs	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughs	nsubj
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 needle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 needle	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 needle	amod
10	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughs	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 laughs	advcl
13	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the hero					at a giant needle; in a cartoon	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	the hero not said here					tough property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What's real bravery?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bravery	amod
4	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	real bravery						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Never feeling scared of anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 feeling	advmod
2	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feeling	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	gerund						scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Feeling scared and doing it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 doing	cc
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Feeling	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund						scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	gerund		it				anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Hiding feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		feelings					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

Option 4

Laughing at nurses and doctors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 nurses	case
3	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laughing	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 doctors	cc
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nurses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund				nurses and doctors			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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