Test 6 · ★★ · When a parent has died

What would most likely happen if Tiana kept pretending to be happy for months?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tiana · What happens: happen, keep, pretend, be

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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	_	8 kept	mark
7	Tiana	Tiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 happy	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 happy	cop
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretending	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 happy	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Tiana			tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	Tiana not said here			tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	Tiana not said here	month	happy property	tree rules

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

Her grief would disappear on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grief	nmod:poss
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	Her grief			grief's own			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd feel lonelier and more 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 feel	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lonelier	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tired	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lonelier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She					lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Nobody would ever notice anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 notice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 notice	advmod
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	Nobody	anything			ever		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mum would stop being sad for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Mum						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	Mum not said here					for good; sad property	tree rules

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