Test 6 · ★ · Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult

What would probably happen if Maddox told his teacher about his mum's illness?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddox · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 497 «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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 told	mark
6	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teacher	nmod:poss
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 illness	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 illness	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mum	case
14	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Maddox		Maddox's teacher			about Maddox's mum's illness	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about illness=Topic

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 right answer

He could get support, like a young carers group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 group	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 group	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 group	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carers	amod
9	carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 group	compound
10	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	He	support				like a carers group	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer support=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He would get his mum into trouble with the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 police	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 police	det
10	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trouble	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He	his mum		trouble with the police			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing, teachers aren't allowed to help at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 teachers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Nothing teachers					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing teachers not said here			all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would have to leave his school straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 school	nmod:poss
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He						tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	He not said here	his school				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme

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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