Test 7 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried

What would happen if Dad rushed into a talk about your report card the second he got home from a horrible day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, second · What happens: happen, rush, get · To what, where: talk, report card

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 34 «When grown-ups are tired or worried» of the adult life 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 rushed	mark
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rushed	nsubj
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 talk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 talk	det
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushed	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 card	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 card	nmod:poss
12	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 card	compound
13	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 second	det
15	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 card	acl:relcl
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 got	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rush a condition, not said to happen	past	Dad			into a talk about your report card result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into talk=Result
3	get	past	the second	your report card not said here	day	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer card=Stimulus

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He'd be extra patient and cheerful all evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 patient	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 patient	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 patient	cop
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patient	amod
5	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cheerful	cc
7	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patient	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patient	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He				evening	patient property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He might snap, though he wouldn't mean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snap	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 snap	aux
3	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 mean	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 snap	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	might	He						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	not mean	would	he	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

He'd give you double pocket money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 money	amod
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	He	double pocket money	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme

Option 4

He'd forget all about work at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 work	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 work	case
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	He	work					tree rules

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