Test 7 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

What would most likely happen if Liam-Jay told nobody about his mum's drinking?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Liam, mum · What happens: happen, tell, drink · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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	_	10 told	mark
7	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Liam	punct
9	Jay	Jay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Liam	flat
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 told	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	16 drinking	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drinking	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mum	case
16	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nobody	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	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	Liam	nobody	about Liam's mum's drinking	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient about drinking=Topic
3	drink		Liam's mum			nom drinking «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd carry a big worry alone

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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 worry	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worry	amod
6	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	He	a big worry				alone property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme

Option 3

The teasing would end all by itself in a day or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teasing	det
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 itself	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 end	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	the teasing				day	by teasing	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

His mum would stop on her own

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 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His mum			mum's own			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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