Test 6 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

What would happen if Finn kept quiet and someone saw him near the window later?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, someone · What happens: happen, keep, see · To what, where: Finn, window

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 437 «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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	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 kept	mark
5	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 window	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Finn			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	someone	Finn	the window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

He would be believed even more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 believed	aux:pass
4	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 believed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	would · passive		He					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody could ever suspect him of anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 suspect	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suspect	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 suspect	advmod
4	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suspect	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 suspect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suspect	could	Nobody	him = he			ever	of anything	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of anything=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He might look guilty for hiding it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 hiding	mark
6	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 look	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	might	He					guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hide	gerund	He not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

The window would be forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgotten	aux:pass
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would · passive		the window					tree rules

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