Test 5 · ★★ · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad

What would probably happen if Clementine never told her parents how much the play mattered?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Clementine · What happens: happen, not tell, matter · To what, where: parents, much play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 told	mark
6	Clementine	Clementine	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 play	amod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 play	det
14	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	ccomp
15	mattered	matter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 play	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Clementine		Clementine's parents		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
3	matter	participle		the much play not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing, parents always know how kids feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 know	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feel	advmod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	parents	Nothing				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	feel	present	kids						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They might keep missing things without knowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 knowing	mark
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might	They	missing things					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	know	gerund	They not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They would cancel every work trip for ever after that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cancel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cancel	aux
3	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 trip	det
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cancel	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 cancel	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cancel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	would	They	every work trip			after that		tree rules

Option 4

They would read her mind and come next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 read	conj
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	read	would	They	her mind		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
2	come	infinitive	They not said here		time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mind		her = she			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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