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title: A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sle… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep. What helps? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · Anger and fears

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A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep. What helps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** keep, see, not sleep, help · **To what, where:** frightening news

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:1
# text = A boy keeps seeing frightening news about a war on TV and cannot sleep.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | frightening news |  |  |  | about a war on TV | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **sleep** | can | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 helps?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:2
# text = What helps?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pretend he is fine and say nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:o1:1
# text = Pretend he is fine and say nothing
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Watch more to understand everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:o2:1
# text = Watch more to understand everything
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | more *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Keep the TV on all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:o3:1
# text = Keep the TV on all night
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the TV |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ask an adult to explain and limit how much news he watches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:212-anger-and-fears:t8:o4:1
# text = Ask an adult to explain and limit how much news he watches
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	limit	limit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **limit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | much news |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer news=Patient |
| 4 | **watch** | present | adult | much news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |

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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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