Test 6 · ★★ · Saving up for a game

What would happen if Mia stopped colouring her chart?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: happen, stop, colour, chart · To what, where: chart

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» of the money 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	_	6 stopped	mark
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	colouring	colour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chart	nmod:poss
9	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colouring	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Mia		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	colour	gerund	Mia not said here	Mia's chart	tree rules
4	chart		Mia		nom chart «communication 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 could ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Her money would vanish from the jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 money	nmod:poss
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 jar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	Her money			the jar			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from jar=Initial_Location

Option 3

The goal would get bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goal	det
2	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the goal					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She might lose track and feel less like keeping going

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 lose	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feel	cc
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	conj
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 feel	advmod
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 keeping	mark
9	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 feel	advcl
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	might	She	track		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Eventuality
2	feel	present	She not said here		less property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	keep	gerund	She not said here			tree rules
4	go	gerund	She not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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