Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★

What would happen if Ruby kept believing the split was her fault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, believing · What happens: happen, keep, believe, be · To what, where: split, fault

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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	Ruby	Ruby	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	12 fault	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 split	det
9	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believing	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fault	cop
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fault	nmod:poss
12	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	parataxis
13	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Ruby		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	believe	gerund		the split	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer split=Stimulus
4	is a	past	believing	Ruby's fault	tree rules

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

Her parents would get back together sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	would	Her parents					soon, together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd carry guilt for something that was never hers

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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 carry	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hers	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hers	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 hers	advmod
10	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 something	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	She	guilt				for something	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme
2	not is a	past	that	hers = she					tree rules

Option 3

She would feel better and better each week

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 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	advmod
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She				week	good, well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Nothing; the thought is true, so it is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the thought					true property	tree rules
2	is	present	the thought not said here					fine property	tree rules

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