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title: Which is true about loneliness? — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and liv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about loneliness? Test 2 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 2 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

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Which is true about loneliness?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings:t2:1
# text = Which is true about loneliness?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about loneliness; true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Only children with no family feel lonely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings:t2:o1:1
# text = Only children with no family feel lonely
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | children with no family |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Many children feel it, and clubs and buddies can help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings:t2:o2:1
# text = Many children feel it, and clubs and buddies can help
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	buddies	buddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | Many children | it |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | can | clubs and buddies |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Loneliness means that nobody will ever like you, however hard you try

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings:t2:o3:1
# text = Loneliness means that nobody will ever like you, however hard you try
1	Loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Loneliness |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** | future | nobody | you |  |  | ever |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | present | you |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lonely children should wait to be found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings:t2:o4:1
# text = Lonely children should wait to be found
1	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | should | Lonely children |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | Lonely children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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