Test 4 · ★★ · The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling

What would probably happen if Nadia told her parents calmly that the checking feels like no trust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nadia, checking · What happens: happen, tell, feel · To what, where: parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 499 «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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	Nadia	Nadia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	iobj
10	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 feels	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 checking	det
13	checking	checking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feels	nsubj
14	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 trust	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 trust	det
17	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feels	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	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	Nadia	Nadia's parents	calmly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic
3	feel	present	the checking		like no trust	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like trust=Theme

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

They would stop helping her with anything

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helping	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 helping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	help	gerund	They not said here		her = she			with anything	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with anything=Theme

Option 2

They would check twice as often from then on

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 check	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 check	aux
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 check	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	3 check	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 on	obl
9	on	on	ADV	_	3 check	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	would	They					often, twice property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They would never speak to her ever again

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	4 speak	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	would	They		her = she		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They might agree to a deal, like Fridays

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 agree	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 agree	aux
3	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 deal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agree	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fridays	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 Fridays	case
9	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	might	They				friday	to a deal	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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