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Test 4 · ★★ · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…

Mia's mate says, "my nan says dreams come true, so watch out." What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, nan, dreams, truth · What happens: say, come, watch out, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» 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

Sentence 1: Mia's mate says, "my nan says dreams come true, so watch out."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nan	nmod:poss
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
10	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 come	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watch	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 watch	advmod
15	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 watch	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive	dreams					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	watch out in a quote	infinitive	Mia's mate not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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.

Sentence 2: What's the truth?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	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	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her nan is right; bad dreams always come true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dreams	amod
7	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	conj
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her nan					right property	tree rules
2	come	present	bad dreams					always, true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only the dreams you have on a Friday night come true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dreams	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dreams	det
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 night	compound
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the dreams				night		tree rules
2	come	infinitive	the dreams not said here					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nightmares are the brain sorting feelings, not predictions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brain	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brain	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brain	det
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sorting	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 brain	acl
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 predictions	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 predictions	advmod
9	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nightmares	the brain and predictions					tree rules
2	sort	gerund	the brain and predictions not said here	feelings					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme

Option 4

Dreams come true if you dream them twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	xcomp
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 dream	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dream	nsubj
6	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dream	obj
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Dreams					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dream a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Dreams = dream				twice property	vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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