Test 5 · When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big…

What would happen if Amelia decided her brother ran off because of her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amelia, brother · What happens: happen, decide, run off · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 14 «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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 decided	mark
5	Amelia	Amelia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 decided	nsubj
6	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decided	ccomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 her	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	decide a condition, not said to happen	past	Amelia		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run off	past	Amelia's brother	because Amelia	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing; blaming yourself always helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 helps	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 blaming	punct
3	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 blaming	obj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 helps	advmod
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund	Nothing not said here	yourself					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
2	help	present	Nothing					always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Her brother would come home faster

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Her brother					fast, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd carry blame that isn't hers

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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hers	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hers	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hers	advmod
8	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 blame	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	She	blame					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme
2	not is a	present	that	hers = she					tree rules

Option 4

It would stop him running away again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	obj
5	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 running	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It	him = he			again		tree rules
2	run away	gerund						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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