Test 8 · Sign language

What would happen if a Deaf baby only ever saw sign language at home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Deaf baby · What happens: happen, see · To what, where: sign language, home

This is test 8 of lesson 32 «Sign language» of the language 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	_	10 saw	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baby	det
6	Deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 baby	amod
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 saw	advmod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 language	compound
12	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	a Deaf baby	sign language		home	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer language=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

She would only learn to wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wave	mark
6	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	She						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wave	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She would learn sign language, even babbling with her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 language	compound
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 babbling	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 babbling	advmod
8	babbling	babble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 learn	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 babbling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	She	sign language					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic
2	babble	gerund	She not said here					with her hands	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme

Option 3

She would never learn any language at all, because language needs sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 learn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needs	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 needs	mark
11	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needs	nsubj
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	parataxis
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	would	She	any language		all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic
2	need	present	language	sounds					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sound=Theme

Option 4

She would learn spoken English by herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 English	amod
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 herself	case
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	She	spoken English				by English	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
2	speak speech: other	participle							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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