Test 3 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

What would probably happen if Ruby kept her worry secret every night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby · What happens: happen, keep, worry · To what, where: worry

This is test 3 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
6	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 worry	nmod:poss
9	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
10	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Ruby	Ruby's worry	night	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme
3	worry		Ruby				nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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

It would grow and spoil her sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spoil	cc
5	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nmod:poss
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	would	It		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spoil	infinitive		her sleep	tree rules
3	sleep		her = she		nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Her teacher would surely guess it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guess	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 guess	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	would	Her teacher	it				anyway, surely property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

She would do much better because of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 do	advmod
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 it	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	She					because it	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would vanish on its own at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vanish	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	It			its own			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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