Test 5 · ★★★ · I was wrong: changing your mind

What would happen if nobody ever admitted being wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, admit, be

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 35 «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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 admitted	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 admitted	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 admitted	advmod
7	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	advcl
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	admit speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	ever		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund			wrong 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 · ← Mova's choice

Arguments would end sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 end	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	Arguments					soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mistakes would spread and nobody would learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 learn	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 learn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 learn	aux
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	Mistakes						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	would	nobody						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Everyone would always be right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 right	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 right	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 right	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Science would move faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Science					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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