Test 10 · ★ · Inference: reading between the lines

What would happen if you answered every inference question with the feeling but no clue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, answer · To what, where: inference question

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 18 «Inference: reading between the lines» of the English 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 answered	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 question	det
8	inference	inference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 question	compound
9	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 feeling	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feeling	det
12	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 question	nmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 clue	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 clue	det
15	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feeling	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you	every inference question				with the feeling but no clue	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=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 teacher would give you extra marks for being short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 marks	amod
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 short	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 short	cop
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the teacher	extra marks	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mark=Theme
2	is	gerund						short property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You'd miss marks, because the evidence is missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 missing	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 missing	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evidence	det
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 missing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 missing	cop
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	You	marks					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
2	is	present	the evidence					missing property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4

You'd get full marks every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marks	amod
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	full marks			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

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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