Test 2 · ★★ · When nobody sits with you: making friends again

What would happen if Zainab kept hiding in the library every lunch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zainab · What happens: happen, keep, hide · To what, where: lunch, library

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 23 «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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	Zainab	Zainab	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 library	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 library	det
10	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hiding	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 lunch	det
12	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hiding	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Zainab			tree rules
3	hide	gerund	Zainab not said here	every lunch	the library	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location

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

She would suddenly become popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	She					popular, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Friends would come and find her in the library

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 find	cc
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 library	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 library	det
9	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Friends						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	infinitive	Friends not said here	her = she		the library			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The loneliness circle would probably keep turning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 circle	det
2	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circle	compound
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the loneliness circle					probably property	tree rules
2	turn	gerund	the loneliness circle not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would make no difference either way to how lonely she felt

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	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 difference	det
5	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 lonely	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lonely	advmod
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	parataxis
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lonely	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	no difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product
2	feel	past	she						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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