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title: Which signs show someone may be nervous? — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: Which signs show someone may be nervous? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

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Which signs show someone may be nervous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** signs, someone · **What happens:** show, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t7:1
# text = Which signs show someone may be nervous?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | which signs |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | may | someone |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A shaky voice and fidgeting hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t7:o1:1
# text = A shaky voice and fidgeting hands
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fidgeting	fidget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fidget** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A big smile that crinkles the eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t7:o2:1
# text = A big smile that crinkles the eyes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crinkles	crinkle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crinkle** | present | a big smile | the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Relaxed shoulders and slow breathing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t7:o3:1
# text = Relaxed shoulders and slow breathing
1	Relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Leaning back and laughing easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t7:o4:1
# text = Leaning back and laughing easily
1	Leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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