Test 10 · ★ · Closed doors, whispers and secrets

What would happen if grown-ups told children every worry the moment it began?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, worry · What happens: happen, grow, tell, child, begin · To what, where: worry, moment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» 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	_	9 children	mark
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 children	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 worry	det
11	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 moment	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would		every worry	moment	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	participle				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	child a condition, not said to happen		grown ups			tree rules
5	begin	past	worry	the moment not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Children would worry about things that turn out to be nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 worry	aux
3	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worry	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 turn	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	11 nothing	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	cop
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	worry	would	Children		about things	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about thing=Stimulus
2	turn out	present	things			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	things not said here	nothing		tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, it would make no difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 difference	det
7	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Nothing	no difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product

Option 3

Grown-ups would stop having any worries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 worries	det
8	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	would	Grown ups		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	have	gerund	Grown ups not said here	any worries	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Patient

Option 4

Children would never feel worried about anything at all ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 worried	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feel	obl
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	would	Children			all	again	worried property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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