Test 2 · ★★ · Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and i…

What would happen if Aisha kept being "the family clown" every night for months?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aisha · What happens: happen, keep, be · To what, where: family clown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 clown	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 clown	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clown	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clown	compound
11	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clown	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 months	case
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
17	?	?	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	Aisha		month	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	gerund	Aisha not said here	the family clown and every night		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

Her parents would make up because of all the jokes and the laughing

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 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 jokes	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 jokes	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jokes	det
10	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughing	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 laughing	det
13	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jokes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	would	Her parents					because all jokes and the laughing	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She would get happier every single week

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 week	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

Nothing; it's her job to fix the mood

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 job	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 job	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 job	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 job	nmod:poss
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fix	mark
8	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 job	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mood	det
10	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	her job					tree rules
2	fix	to-infinitive		the mood					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mood=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'd get tired and grumpy, and nothing would be fixed

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 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grumpy	cc
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fixed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fixed	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 fixed	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fixed	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fixed	aux:pass
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	She					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fix	would · passive		nothing					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

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