Test 3 · A new baby

What would probably happen if Rosie told her teacher the baby keeps her up?

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

This is test 3 of lesson 504 «A new baby» 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	Rosie	Rosie	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 teacher	nmod:poss
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keeps	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 keeps	compound:prt
15	?	?	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	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Rosie		Rosie's teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep up	present	the baby	teacher			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=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 · ✓ the right answer

The teacher would understand why she's tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tired	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 understand	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	the teacher						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	teacher					tired property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing; teachers never care about it

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	5 care	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	present	Nothing teachers					about it	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

Option 3

She'd get a detention for being so tired

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 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 detention	det
5	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 tired	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tired	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 tired	advmod
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	She	a detention					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus
2	is	gerund						tired property	tree rules

Option 4

The teacher would ring the baby's doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ring	aux
4	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doctor	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 baby	case
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	would	the teacher	the baby's doctor					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doctor=Theme

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