Test 5 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

What would probably happen if Zofia never asked and kept guessing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zofia · What happens: happen, not ask, keep, guess

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 asked	mark
6	Zofia	Zofia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 asked	advmod
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
11	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	Zofia		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	Zofia not said here		tree rules
4	guess	gerund	Zofia not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She'd keep worrying, maybe about things that aren't true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	worrying	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 things	punct
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 things	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 things	case
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worrying	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 true	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 true	advmod
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	would	She			tree rules
2	worry	gerund	She not said here	things		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer
3	not is	present	things		true property	tree rules

Option 2

She'd find out everything by reading her mum's mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 find	compound:prt
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 find	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 reading	mark
7	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 find	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mind	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mum	case
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find out	would	She	everything	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	read	gerund	She not said here	her mum's mind	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
3	mind		her mum		nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The rent would go back down if she stayed quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rent	det
2	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stayed	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	would	the rent					down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	rent					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Her parents would move the family that same night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 night	nsubj
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Her parents	the family					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent family=Theme
2	night		that						tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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