Test 6 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

What would probably happen if Zelda kept tiptoeing every night for years and told nobody?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zelda · What happens: happen, keep, tiptoe, tell · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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	_	7 kept	mark
6	Zelda	Zelda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	tiptoeing	tiptoe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tiptoeing	obl:unmarked
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tiptoeing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	conj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 told	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Zelda				tree rules
3	tiptoe	gerund	Zelda not said here		night; year		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Zelda not said here	nobody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

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

The worry would vanish by itself one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worry	det
2	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 vanish	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the worry				day	by worry	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She'd carry a lot of worry on her own

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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 worry	case
7	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	She	a lot of worry		her own			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 3

Dad would be in a good mood for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mood	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mood	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 mood	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mood	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mood	amod
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 mood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Dad			a good mood			tree rules

Option 4

She'd become a famous ballet dancer

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 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dancer	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dancer	amod
6	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dancer	compound
7	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	She	a famous ballet dancer					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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