Test 6 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

If you listened only to someone's words and ignored their face and voice, what could happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, face, someone · What happens: listen, ignore, happen, word · To what, where: face

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 listened	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 words	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 words	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 words	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 someone	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listened	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ignored	cc
10	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ignored	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 voice	cc
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 face	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 face	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	you		to someone's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	ignore	past	you not said here	words's face and voice		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	happen	could	words's face and voice			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	word		someone			nom word «communication transitive»: 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

You would know their feelings for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feelings	nmod:poss
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sure	case
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	You	their feelings				for sure	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You could miss that they are upset

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	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 upset	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 upset	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	cop
7	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miss	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	could	You						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	they					upset property	tree rules

Option 3

You would never misread anyone again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 misread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 misread	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 misread	advmod
4	misread	misread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 misread	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 misread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not misread	would	You	anyone			again		tree rules

Option 4

You would understand them better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	obj
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	You	them = they				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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