Test 10 · ★★★ · Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back

What would happen if Ava had never seen the list of who to talk to?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, list · What happens: happen, not see, talk · To what, where: list

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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	_	8 seen	mark
5	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 list	det
10	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 talk	mark
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 talk	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 list	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 talk	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Ava	the list	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus
3	talk	to-infinitive	the list	the list not said here	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The list would have come to her by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 list	det
2	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 magic	case
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would · perfect	the list		her = she			by magic	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to her=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She might have thought there was nobody to ask

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 thought	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 was	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nobody	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	might · perfect	She		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	nobody	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She would never need help with anything

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 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	would	She	help				with anything	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 4

She would already know everybody she could talk to anyway

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 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 talk	nsubj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	talk	could	everybody					anyway property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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