Test 6 · ★ · Lied to by someone you love

What would happen if Grace's dad had said «I'm so sorry, love, Hammy died»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, Hammy · What happens: happen, say, be, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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	_	9 said	mark
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Grace	case
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 sorry	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sorry	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sorry	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 sorry	advmod
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 love	punct
16	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sorry	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 died	punct
18	Hammy	Hammy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 died	nsubj
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 died	punct
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			tree rules
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Grace's dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Grace's dad = dad	love vocative; sorry property	tree rules
4	die in a quote	past	Hammy		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Grace would never find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	would	Grace						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grace would be sad but not tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tricked	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tricked	advmod
7	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Grace					sad property	tree rules
2	not trick	participle	Grace not said here						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Grace would be angry for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 angry	obl

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

Option 4

Grace would want three hamsters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 want	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hamsters	nummod
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	Grace	three hamsters					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hamster=Theme

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