--- title: Why is it wise to ask rather than guess how someone feels? — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: Why is it wise to ask rather than guess how someone feels? Test 8 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Reading faces and voices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Reading faces and voices Why is it wise to ask rather than guess how someone feels? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** be, ask, guess, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t8:1 # text = Why is it wise to ask rather than guess how someone feels? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 4 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 9 cc _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **guess** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feel** | present | someone | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} Everyone misreads faces sometimes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t8:o1:1 # text = Everyone misreads faces sometimes 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 misreads misread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **misread** | present | Everyone | faces | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Guessing is against school rules ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t8:o2:1 # text = Guessing is against school rules 1 Guessing guess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 against against ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | against Guessing school rules | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Asking always makes people angry ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t8:o3:1 # text = Asking always makes people angry 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 1 advmod _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | Asking | people | | | | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | ### Option 4 {#o4} Faces never show any feelings ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t8:o4:1 # text = Faces never show any feelings 1 Faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **show** | present | Faces | any feelings | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | **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. 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