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title: Which helps stop worries from taking over the whole day? — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: Which helps stop worries from taking over the whole day? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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 5 · ★ · Worry and sadness

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Which helps stop worries from taking over the whole day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** help, stop, take · **To what, where:** worries

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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/91-worry-and-sadness/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t5:1
# text = Which helps stop worries from taking over the whole day?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive |  | worries |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality worry=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Thinking hard about each worry as it comes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t5:o1:1
# text = Thinking hard about each worry as it comes
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about each worry as worry; hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | Thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never talking about worries with anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t5:o2:1
# text = Never talking about worries with anyone
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about worries; with anyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic with anyone=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A short worry time each day to talk them through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t5:o3:1
# text = A short worry time each day to talk them through
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | through *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Staying away from school when worried

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t5:o4:1
# text = Staying away from school when worried
1	Staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay away** | gerund |  |  |  | school |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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