Test 5 · Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't de…

What would happen if Harry kept blaming his sister for Buster leaving?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harry, blaming · What happens: happen, keep, blame, leave · To what, where: sister

This is test 5 of lesson 3 «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 leaving	csubj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blaming	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Buster	case
11	Buster	buster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blaming	obl
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kept	xcomp
13	?	?	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	Harry			tree rules
3	blame	gerund		Harry's sister	for Buster	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sister=Theme for buster=Attribute
4	leave	gerund	blaming			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

His sister would grow out of her allergy faster if he kept on at her

The tree, 15 words

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 allergy	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 allergy	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 allergy	nmod:poss
8	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 kept	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 kept	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow out	would	His sister	sister's allergy				fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location allergy=Theme
2	keep on a condition, not said to happen	past	he					at sister	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at she=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would be unfair to her, and it would hurt them both

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 unfair	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 unfair	cop
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unfair	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hurt	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unfair	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	obj
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He		her = she			unfair property	tree rules
2	hurt	would	it	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result

Option 3

Buster would be sent back to live with the family again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buster	buster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	would · passive		Buster					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	live	to-infinitive					again	with the family	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing bad; blaming somebody always helps sad feelings get better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 bad	nsubj
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 bad	punct
4	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 helps	csubj
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 blaming	obj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 helps	advmod
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bad	parataxis
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feelings	amod
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helps	ccomp
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund		somebody		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme
2	help	present	blaming		always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get	present	sad feelings		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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