Test 7 · Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments

What would happen if Mo kept believing "I'm dirty" after the lice were gone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mo, I · What happens: happen, keep, believe, be, go · To what, where: lice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 11 «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
5	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dirty	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 dirty	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dirty	cop
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 believing	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dirty	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 gone	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lice	det
15	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gone	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux:pass
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 believing	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Mo			tree rules
3	believe	gerund	Mo not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	I		dirty property	tree rules
5	go	past · passive		the lice		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd keep feeling ashamed for something that isn't true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 feeling	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 true	advmod
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	would	He		tree rules
2	feel	gerund	He not said here	for something; ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not is	present		true property	tree rules

Option 2

He'd catch lice again because of the belief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 belief	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 belief	det
9	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	He	lice			again	because the belief	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent louse=Theme

Option 3

Nothing; beliefs never affect feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 beliefs	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 affect	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 affect	advmod
5	affect	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 affect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present	Nothing beliefs	feelings					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would make him cleaner than other kids

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	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 kids	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kids	amod
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cleaner	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	him = he				clean property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/t7/