Test 4 · ★★★ · Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and bei…

What would happen if Lucy kept believing in the pencil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucy · What happens: happen, keep, believe · To what, where: pencil

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 27 «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» 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	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pencil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pencil	det
10	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Lucy		tree rules
3	believe	gerund	Lucy not said here	the pencil	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

She'd likely remember only the times it "worked"

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 remember	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 times	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 times	det
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obl:unmarked
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worked	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 worked	punct
10	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 times	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	would	She				time	likely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	work in a quote	past	it	the times not said here					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent time=Material

Option 2

Nothing; superstitions are always true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 superstitions	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 true	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing superstitions					always, true property	tree rules

Option 3

She would fail every single test whenever she forgot it

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	3 fail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	aux
3	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 test	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 test	amod
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fail	obj
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 forgot	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	would	She	every single test					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality
2	forget	past	she	test				whenever property	tree rules

Option 4

The pencil would get luckier every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pencil	det
2	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	luckier	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the pencil				year	lucky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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