Test 4 · Trusted adults and asking for help

What would probably happen if a child kept a big worry secret from everyone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: big worry secret, everyone

This is test 4 of lesson 56 «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 kept	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 secret	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 secret	amod
11	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 secret	compound
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 secret	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	a big worry secret		everyone			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from everyone=Eventuality

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

An adult would surely guess it without being told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guess	obj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 guess	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	would	a adult	it				surely property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive	a adult not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The child would become braver than all the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 others	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 others	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 braver	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the child					brave property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The worry would always fade away all by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worry	det
2	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fade	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fade	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fade	advmod
5	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 fade	advmod
7	all	all	ADV	_	5 fade	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 fade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade away	would	the worry					by worry; all, always, away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The worry would grow and nobody could help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worry	det
2	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 help	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 help	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the worry						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	could	nobody						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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