Test 5 · ★ · Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets

What would happen if Oliver hid the dead tadpoles and said nothing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oliver · What happens: happen, hide, say · To what, where: dead tadpoles, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 4 «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 hid	mark
5	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hid	nsubj
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tadpoles	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tadpoles	amod
9	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hid	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hid	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 said	obj
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	hide a condition, not said to happen	past	Oliver	the dead tadpoles	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tadpole=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Oliver not said here	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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 teacher would never need to know anything, and the tadpoles would be fine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fine	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fine	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tadpoles	det
12	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fine	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 fine	cop
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	would	the teacher			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the teacher not said here	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	is	would	the tadpoles		fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd likely feel worse, and nobody could help fix the problem

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	3 likely	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	aux
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 feel	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 help	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	conj
11	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 problem	det
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	help	could	nobody			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fix	infinitive	nobody not said here	the problem		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient

Option 3

Everyone would trust him more with jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 trust	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
3	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trust	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 trust	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 jobs	case
7	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	would	Everyone		him = he			with jobs	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with job=Theme

Option 4

The tadpoles would come back to life on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tadpoles	det
2	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the tadpoles			tadpoles's own		to life	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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