Test 2 · ★★ · Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mea…

What would probably have happened if Kyle kept snapping back for months?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kyle · What happens: happen, keep, snap back

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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	5 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happened	aux
5	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 kept	mark
7	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	advcl
9	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 snapping	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 months	case
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snapping	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Kyle			tree rules
3	snap back	gerund	Kyle not said here	month		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dev's dad would have moved back home and everything would be normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Dev	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 moved	aux
6	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 home	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 moved	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 normal	cc
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 normal	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 normal	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 normal	cop
13	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	would · perfect	Dev's dad					home property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	everything					normal property	tree rules

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

The friendship would likely have broken while Dev struggled alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friendship	det
2	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 broken	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 broken	aux
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 struggled	mark
8	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 struggled	nsubj
9	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	advcl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 struggled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would · perfect · passive		the friendship				likely property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	struggle	past	Dev					alone property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Dev would have told him everything straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would · perfect	Dev	everything	him = he			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

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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