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Test 9 · ★★ · Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs

Lucas's gran says, "back in my day the dentist didn't numb nothing." ("Numbing" is medicine so it doesn't hurt.) What helps Lucas now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gran, dentist, medicine · What happens: say, do, be, not hurt, help · To what, where: nothing, Numbing medicine, Lucas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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: Lucas's gran says, "back in my day the dentist didn't numb nothing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gran	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucas	case
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 says	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 day	nmod:poss
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dentist	det
12	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 numb	advmod
15	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nothing	amod
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 did	obj
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	Lucas's gran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	the dentist	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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: ("Numbing" is medicine so it doesn't hurt.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Numbing	punct
3	Numbing	numbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	compound
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Numbing	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 medicine	cop
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 (	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 hurt	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hurt	advmod
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Numbing medicine					tree rules
2	not hurt	present · do-support	medicine						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What helps Lucas now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 helps	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present			Lucas		now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lucas=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Telling the dentist he's scared and agreeing a stop signal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 scared	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dentist	det
3	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 agreeing	cc
8	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scared	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 signal	det
10	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signal	compound
11	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agreeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			the dentist				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient
2	is	present	he					scared property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	gerund	he not said here	a stop signal					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic

Option 2

Asking for no numbing to toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 numbing	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 numbing	det
4	numbing	numbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 toughen	mark
6	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for no numbing	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	toughen up not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Never going to the dentist again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 going	advmod
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 dentist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dentist	det
5	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	gerund				the dentist	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dentist=Initial_Location

Option 4

Pretending to be brave and saying nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 brave	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 brave	cop
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretending	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saying	cc
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Pretending	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						brave property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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