Test 2 · ★ · Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back…

What would happen if Zoe's family never tested their smoke alarm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, their · What happens: happen, not test, alarm · To what, where: smoke alarm

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 7 «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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	_	9 tested	mark
5	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Zoe	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tested	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 tested	advmod
9	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 alarm	nmod:poss
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alarm	compound
12	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tested	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	not test a condition, not said to happen	past	Zoe's family	their smoke alarm	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme
3	alarm		their = they		nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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

Fires would never happen in their house at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	would	Fires			Fires's house		at all	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The alarm would quietly test itself every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 alarm	det
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 test	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 test	aux
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 test	advmod
5	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 test	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 test	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	would	the alarm	alarm			day	quietly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 3

It would work even better because it has rested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 rested	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rested	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rested	aux
9	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	present · perfect · passive		it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It might not work when they really needed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 needed	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needed	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 needed	advmod
8	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	might	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	past	they	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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