Test 3 · Living in a children's home

What would most likely happen if Rian never told the staff about his trainers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rian · What happens: happen, not tell · To what, where: staff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 520 «Living in a children's home» 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	Rian	Rian	PROPN	_	9 told	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 staff	det
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 trainers	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 trainers	nmod:poss
14	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 staff	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Rian		the staff about Rian's trainers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient

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 kid might keep taking his stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nmod:poss
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might	the kid						tree rules
2	take	gerund	the kid not said here	kid's stuff					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 2

The older kid would say sorry on his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the older kid	sorry		kid's own			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The staff would know without being told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 staff	det
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	the staff						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4

The trainers would come back by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trainers	det
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the trainers					by trainers = trainer	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location

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