Test 6 · ★★★ · Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight

What would happen if Noah kept saying "sore throat" to avoid reading for the whole year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah · What happens: happen, keep, say, avoid, read · To what, where: sore throat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 kept	mark
5	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 throat	punct
9	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 throat	amod
10	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 throat	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 avoid	mark
13	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	advcl
14	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 avoid	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 year	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 year	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 year	amod
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reading	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Noah			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Noah not said here	sore throat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent throat=Topic
4	avoid	to-infinitive	Noah not said here			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	read	gerund	Noah not said here		year	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His fear of reading out loud would probably grow

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 fear	nmod:poss
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 reading	mark
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fear	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 reading	compound:prt
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 reading	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	read out	gerund	His fear not said here	loud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	would	His fear	probably property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fear		His = he		nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His voice would simply stop cracking all by itself

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 voice	nmod:poss
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 cracking	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 cracking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His voice					simply property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	crack	gerund	His voice not said here					by voice; all property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

His reading aloud would become perfect without practice

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 reading	nmod:poss
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 reading	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 practice	case
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perfect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	His reading					perfect property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	read		His = he						nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Everyone would soon forget he had ever read out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 read	advmod
8	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 forget	ccomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 read	advmod
10	loud	loud	ADV	_	8 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	Everyone					soon property	tree rules
2	read out	past · perfect	he				ever	loud, out property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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