Test 2 · ★ · Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up

What would happen if Ethan kept faking Monday tummy aches and told nobody?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan · What happens: happen, keep, fake, tell · To what, where: Monday tummy aches, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 19 «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 aches	compound
9	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 aches	compound
10	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faking	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 told	obj
14	?	?	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	Ethan			tree rules
3	fake	gerund	Ethan not said here	Monday tummy aches		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	Ethan not said here		nobody	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

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 school would find out without being told

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	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 find	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	would	the school						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive	the school not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

The boys would get bored and stop by themselves within a week or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stop	obl
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 so	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	4 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the boys					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	the boys not said here				week	by boys = boy	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bullying would likely go on and the dread would grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bullying	det
2	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grow	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dread	det
9	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	would	the bullying					likely property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	would	the dread						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

His tummy aches would become the real problem

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	3 aches	nmod:poss
2	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aches	compound
3	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 problem	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 problem	amod
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	His tummy aches	the real problem					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	ache		His = he						nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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