Test 4 · ★ · Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean

What would happen if Mo kept his promise and told nobody?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mo · What happens: happen, keep, tell, promise · To what, where: promise, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 16 «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 promise	nmod:poss
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 told	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Mo	Mo's promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Mo not said here		nobody	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient
4	promise		Mo			nom promise «communication 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

His friend's dad would stop hitting by himself after a while, without anyone knowing

The tree, 15 words

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 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 hitting	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 while	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knowing	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 knowing	mark
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 knowing	nsubj
16	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His friend's dad			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	hit	gerund	His friend's dad not said here	while	by dad	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	anyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The school would find out on its own the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 school	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 find	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	would	the school			school's own	day		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Mo would feel completely calm and sleep soundly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 calm	advmod
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	conj
8	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	3 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	Mo					calm, soundly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sleep	infinitive	Mo not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His friend could keep getting hurt with no grown-up to help

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 keep	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hurt	aux:pass
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 keep	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 up	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 up	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 up	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	could	His friend	with no grown up	tree rules
2	hurt	gerund · passive	His friend not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	to-infinitive	His friend not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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