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title: After a bad day, which plan is most likely to lift your mood? — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: After a bad day, which plan is most likely to lift your mood? Test 8 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Worry and sadness

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After a bad day, which plan is most likely to lift your mood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** be, lift · **To what, where:** mood

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t8:1
# text = After a bad day, which plan is most likely to lift your mood?
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which plan |  |  |  | day | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive | which plan *not said here* | your mood |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A walk in daylight with the dog and a chat with a friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t8:o1:1
# text = A walk in daylight with the dog and a chat with a friend
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thinking over the bad day again and again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t8:o2:1
# text = Thinking over the bad day again and again
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  | again; day |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Scrolling on a phone alone in your room until it is bedtime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t8:o3:1
# text = Scrolling on a phone alone in your room until it is bedtime
1	Scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	until	until	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scroll** | gerund |  |  |  | a phone |  | in your room; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | room |  |  |  | until bedtime |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Skipping dinner and going to bed early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:91-worry-and-sadness:t8:o4:1
# text = Skipping dinner and going to bed early
1	Skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  | dinner |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | bed |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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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