--- title: What usually makes a worry smaller? — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: What usually makes a worry smaller? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/90-facing-fears/t6/) [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/) / [Facing fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/90-facing-fears/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Facing fears What usually makes a worry smaller? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** worry This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing 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/90-facing-fears/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:90-facing-fears:t6:1 # text = What usually makes a worry smaller? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | | a worry | | | | small, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary worry=Product | 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 {#o1} Looking for more scary facts ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:90-facing-fears:t6:o1:1 # text = Looking for more scary facts 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | for scary facts | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fact=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Thinking about it alone every night ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:90-facing-fears:t6:o2:1 # text = Thinking about it alone every night 1 Thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 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 alone alone ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | night | about it; alone *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Talking about it with someone you trust ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:90-facing-fears:t6:o3:1 # text = Talking about it with someone you trust 1 Talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 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 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about it; with someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with someone=Co-Agent | | 2 | **trust** | present | you | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Keeping it a secret until it goes away ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:90-facing-fears:t6:o4:1 # text = Keeping it a secret until it goes away 1 Keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 until until SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | gerund | | it | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme secret=Attribute | | 2 | **go away** | present | secret | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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