Test 4 · The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape

What would happen if Leo kept the shoving secret for the whole year?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: shoving secret

This is test 4 of lesson 18 «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» 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	Leo	Leo	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	shoving	shoving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 secret	amod
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	Leo	the shoving 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

The bully would get bored of it by himself and slowly become kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bully	det
2	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bored	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bored	aux:pass
5	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bored	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bored	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 become	cc
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 become	advmod
12	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	conj
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	would · passive	himself = he	the bully				of it	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	become	present	himself = he not said here					kind, slowly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Leo's tummy aches would go away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 aches	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leo	case
3	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 aches	compound
4	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	would	Leo's tummy aches					away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	ache		Leo						nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would likely carry on, with nobody able to stop it

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 carry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 carry	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 able	case
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 able	nsubj
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carry	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry on	would	It					likely property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	stop	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

The school would find out by magic

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	by	by	ADP	_	7 magic	case
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl

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

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