Test 10 · ★ · Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back…
Isla thinks, "If I'm scared, something bad must be about to happen." Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Isla · What happens: think, be, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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: Isla thinks, "If I'm scared, something bad must be about to happen."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scared | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 scared | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 scared | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 scared | conj |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 about | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 about | cop |
| 14 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 happen | mark |
| 16 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 about | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Isla | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Isla | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | 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.
Sentence 2: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Being scared shows she loves Mum; it doesn't predict what happens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 scared | cop |
| 2 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shows | csubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 6 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 predict | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 predict | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 predict | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 predict | advmod |
| 11 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happens | nsubj |
| 13 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 predict | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | love | present | she | Mum | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not predict | present · do-support | it | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Fear is a sign that bad things are definitely coming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sign | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 coming | mark |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 9 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sign | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fear | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | bad things | a sign not said here | definitely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme |
Option 3
Fear can make an operation go wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 operation | det |
| 5 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Fear | a operation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | a operation not said here | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
If she stops being scared the operation will fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 stops | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | advcl |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 operation | det |
| 7 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fail | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fail | aux |
| 9 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scared | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | she | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fail | future | the operation | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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