Test 4 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays

What would have happened if Sophie had said «this is totally made up!» before the ghost story?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sophie · What happens: happen, say, make up · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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	_	8 said	mark
6	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 made	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 made	compound:prt
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
17	before	before	ADP	_	20 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
19	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 story	compound
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Sophie		before the ghost story		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make up in a quote	present · passive		this		totally property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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

Nobody would want to listen to a made-up story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 want	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 listen	mark
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 story	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 story	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 made	compound:prt
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	would	Nobody		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	to a made story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
3	make up	participle			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Everyone would be more scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 scared	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					scared property	tree rules

Option 3

The ghost would appear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	would	the ghost						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could still be fun and nobody would be truly scared

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	5 fun	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 fun	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fun	cop
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scared	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 scared	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 scared	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 scared	cop
10	truly	truly	ADV	_	11 scared	advmod
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	It				still	fun property	tree rules
2	is	would	nobody					scared, truly property	tree rules

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