Test 6 · ★ · «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other

What would have happened if Sophie's sister had said at once «sorry, I spilled ketchup on your top»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: happen, say, spill · To what, where: ketchup, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 432 ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
6	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sister	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sophie	case
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 said	obl
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 spilled	punct
14	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	17 spilled	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sorry	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 spilled	nsubj
17	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spilled	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 top	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 top	nmod:poss
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spilled	obl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 spilled	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Sophie's sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spill in a quote	past	Sophie's sister = sister	ketchup	your top	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ketchup=Theme

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

Sophie would never speak to her again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 speak	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	would	Sophie		her = she		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sophie would likely forgive a stain more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forgive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forgive	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 forgive	advmod
4	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stain	det
6	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgive	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 easily	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 forgive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	would	Sophie	a stain				easily, likely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=Theme

Option 3

The top would wash clean by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wash	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	would	the top					by top; clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Mum would ground her for a whole year for the stain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ground	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ground	aux
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ground	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ground	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 stain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stain	det
11	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	nmod

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

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