Test 3 · ★ · The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret

What would happen if Sam never owned up about the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, not own up

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 15 «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» 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	_	7 owned	mark
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 owned	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 owned	advmod
7	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 owned	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owned	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not own up a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam					about the window	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 window would be fixed faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fixed	aux:pass
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fixed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would · passive		the window				fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Nothing at all would happen to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing					to anyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His friend would stay wrongly blamed and Sam would keep the guilt

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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	6 blamed	advmod
6	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stay	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 keep	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guilt	det
12	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	would	His friend			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blame	participle	His friend not said here		wrongly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	would	Sam	the guilt		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme

Option 4

His friend would forget it and Sam would feel fine

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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 feel	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feel	aux
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forget	conj
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	His friend	it					tree rules
2	feel	would	Sam					fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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