Test 4 · ★ · Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison

What would most likely happen if nobody ever told Dayo the truth and he kept overhearing bits?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, Dayo · What happens: happen, tell, keep, overhear · To what, where: truth, Dayo, bits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 519 «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 told	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	Dayo	Dayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	conj
16	overhearing	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 kept	xcomp
17	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 overhearing	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	the truth	Dayo	ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dayo=Recipient truth=Topic
3	keep	past	Dayo					tree rules
4	overhear	gerund	Dayo not said here	bits				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=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

His dad would come home sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	His dad					home, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He'd never find out anything at all

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	4 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 find	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	would	He	anything		all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd feel more confused and lied to

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 feel	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 confused	advmod
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lied	cc
7	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 confused	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	He					confused property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lie	participle	He not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He would stop caring about his dad

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 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
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 dad	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	He						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	care	gerund	He not said here					about his dad	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about dad=Stimulus

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