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title: A boy is still scared after a monster film. What is true? — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy is still scared after a monster film. What is true? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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 3 · ★★ · Anger and fears

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A boy is still scared after a monster film. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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/212-anger-and-fears/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy is still scared after a monster film.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:1
# text = A boy is still scared after a monster film.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a boy |  |  |  | after a monster film; still | scared *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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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The film was made up with special effects

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:o1:1
# text = The film was made up with special effects
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · passive |  | the film |  |  |  | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Watching more will cure it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:o2:1
# text = Watching more will cure it
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **cure** | future | Watching | it |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Monsters like that may well come and visit tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:o3:1
# text = Monsters like that may well come and visit tonight
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | may | Monsters like that |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | infinitive | Monsters like that *not said here* |  |  |  | tonight |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Talking about it will make it worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t3:o4:1
# text = Talking about it will make it worse
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about it | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | future | Talking | it |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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