Test 6 · ★ · Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault

What would happen if Max kept trying to cure his mum's depression on his own?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Max, mum · What happens: happen, keep, try, cure, depress · To what, where: depression, own

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 12 «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» 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	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cure	mark
9	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 depression	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mum	case
13	depression	depression	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cure	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cure	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Max			tree rules
3	try	gerund	Max not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cure not said to happen	to-infinitive	Max not said here	Max's mum's depression	Max's own	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer depression=Source
5	depress		Max's mum			nom depression «state 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd wear himself out, because a child can't cure an illness

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 wear	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wear	aux
3	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wear	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 wear	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cure	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 cure	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cure	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cure	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cure	advmod
12	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wear	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 illness	det
14	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	would	He	himself = he					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source
2	not cure	can	a child	a illness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source

Option 2

His jokes would make the illness go away completely

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 jokes	nmod:poss
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	completely	completely	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	would	His jokes	the illness		tree rules
2	go away	infinitive	the illness not said here		away, completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	joke		His = he			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

His mum would be better in a day or two

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 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 two	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	His mum				day	good property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing; depression doesn't need any help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
3	depression	depression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	depression	any help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

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