Test 2 · ★ · Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go

What would happen if Chloe kept the trampoline secret for ten more years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Chloe · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: trampoline secret

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 17 «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 secret	det
8	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secret	compound
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
14	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Chloe	the trampoline secret			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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

Her brother's tooth would slowly grow back by itself

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 tooth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	aux
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	Her brother's tooth					by tooth; slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would probably keep popping up and stay heavy

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	4 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	popping	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 popping	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stay	cc
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It	probably property	tree rules
2	pop up	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	infinitive		heavy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Her mum would find out from the tooth on its own

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 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	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	from	from	ADP	_	8 tooth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tooth	det
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	would	Her mum			the tooth		on tooth's own	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tooth=Source

Option 4

It would definitely disappear on her sixteenth birthday

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	4 disappear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 disappear	advmod
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 birthday	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birthday	nmod:poss
7	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birthday	amod
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	It			her sixteenth birthday		definitely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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