Test 8 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone

What would most likely happen if Avery never told Mum how the phone made her feel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Avery, phone · What happens: happen, not tell, make, feel · To what, where: Mum, Avery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	Avery	Avery	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 made	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 phone	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Avery		Mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make	past	the phone	Avery			tree rules
4	feel	infinitive	Avery not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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

The phone would break by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	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 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would	the phone					by phone	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mum would read her mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	Mum	Mum's mind					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
2	mind		Mum						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Avery would stop caring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avery	Avery	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Avery						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	care	gerund	Avery not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mum might never notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notice	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 notice	advmod
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	might	Mum						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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