Test 6 · ★ · Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult

★ What would happen if Noah's friends believed «a bit tingly, it's nothing»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, friends, bit · What happens: happen, believe, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 51 «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happen	nsubj
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 believed	mark
6	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 friends	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Noah	case
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 tingly	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tingly	obl:unmarked
13	tingly	tingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 believed	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nothing	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	cop
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 happen	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would	★		tree rules
2	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	Noah's friends		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	bit	nothing	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 · ← Mova's choice

He would get better faster by playing

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 get	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 playing	mark
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He					fast, good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	play	gerund	He not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing at all, because tingly lips are always fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 fine	mark
6	tingly	tingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lips	amod
7	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fine	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 fine	advmod
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	tingly lips					always, fine property	tree rules

Option 3

His lips would stop tingling the next day

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 lips	nmod:poss
2	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tingling	tingle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tingling	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His lips						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	tingle	gerund	His lips not said here				day		vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A reaction could get dangerous before an adult knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reaction	det
2	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	a reaction					dangerous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	past	a adult						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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