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title: After counting to ten slowly, Ana still feels very angry. What could… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics
description: After counting to ten slowly, Ana still feels very angry. What could she do next? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

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After counting to ten slowly, Ana still feels very angry. What could she do next?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ana · **What happens:** count, feel, do

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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/53-feelings-and-calming-down/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* After counting to ten slowly, Ana still feels very angry.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:1
# text = After counting to ten slowly, Ana still feels very angry.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | Ana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to ten; slowly *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Ana |  |  |  | still | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 could she do next?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:2
# text = What could she do next?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | Ana |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Throw something soft at the person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:o1:1
# text = Throw something soft at the person
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | at the person | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent something=Theme at person=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Keep counting to a thousand without stopping once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:o2:1
# text = Keep counting to a thousand without stopping once
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a thousand | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to thousand=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Decide that calming down never works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:o3:1
# text = Decide that calming down never works
1	Decide	decide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	calming	calm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | imperative | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **calm down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **work** | present | calming |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Go somewhere quiet and talk to a trusted adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t9:o4:1
# text = Go somewhere quiet and talk to a trusted adult
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	advmod	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet, somewhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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