Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★

Check the claim: "Thinking positive means pretending nothing bad happened."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Thinking, nothing · What happens: check, think, mean, pretend, happen · To what, where: claim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 claim	det
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Thinking	punct
6	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 means	csubj
7	positive	positive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Thinking	xcomp
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Check	parataxis
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	ccomp
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 happened	nsubj
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pretending	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Check	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	the claim		tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	gerund			positive property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean in a quote	present	Thinking			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pretend in a quote	gerund				tree rules
5	happen in a quote	past	nothing			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

True: you must smile and look happy whatever happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 smile	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 smile	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 smile	aux
5	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 smile	conj
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happens	nsubj
10	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	smile	must	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	infinitive	you not said here	happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	happen	present	whatever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

False: you can be sad and still see the true size of things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sad	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	cop
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 size	det
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 size	amod
12	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 things	case
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	you					sad property	tree rules
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	the true size of things			still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus

Option 3

False, because thinking positive is always bad for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bad	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bad	mark
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bad	csubj
5	positive	positive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thinking	xcomp
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 False	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						positive property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	thinking					for you; always, bad property	tree rules

Option 4

True, but only when you are at school with friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 school	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 school	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 school	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 school	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 school	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 school	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 friends	case
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 school	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			school		with friends	tree rules

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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