Test 5 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

What would happen if people never calmed down before acting when they were angry?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: happen, not calm down, act, be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 calmed	mark
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 calmed	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 calmed	advmod
7	calmed	calm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 calmed	compound:prt
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 acting	mark
10	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 calmed	advcl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 angry	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 angry	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 angry	cop
14	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 acting	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not calm down a condition, not said to happen	participle	people		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	act	gerund	people not said here		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	people	angry 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

Everyone would be happier at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 happier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 happier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					happy property	tree rules

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

They would often do things they later regret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 regret	nsubj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 regret	advmod
8	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	They	things				often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	regret	present	things = thing	things not said here				late property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 3

They would always solve their problems much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 solve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 solve	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 solve	advmod
4	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 problems	nmod:poss
6	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 solve	obj
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 solve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	would	They	their problems				always, fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic

Option 4

They would never feel angry again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	would	They				again	angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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