Test 2 · ★ · Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big ques…

What would happen if Oscar kept all his questions about his baby cousin to himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oscar · What happens: happen, keep, question · To what, where: questions

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 questions	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 questions	nmod:poss
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 cousin	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cousin	nmod:poss
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cousin	compound
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 questions	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 cousin	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Oscar	Oscar's questions	about Oscar's baby cousin to Oscar	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent question=Theme about cousin=Location
3	question		Oscar		about Oscar's baby cousin to Oscar	nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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 right answer

He would likely stay confused and scared on his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scared	cc
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 confused	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He			his own		confused, likely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Location

Option 2

The grown-ups would feel better because he was quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ups	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 feel	xcomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 quiet	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 quiet	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	cop
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	would	the grown ups	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	he	quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

His sadness would go away faster than by talking

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 sadness	nmod:poss
2	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 faster	fixed
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	would	His sadness					away, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	His sadness not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would understand everything better without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 understand	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 everything	amod
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 understand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	He	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	He not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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