Test 5 · Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go…

What would happen if Ava never told any teacher she needed the toilet on trips?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: happen, not tell, need · To what, where: teacher, toilet, trips · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 9 «Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away» 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	_	7 told	mark
5	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 needed	nsubj
11	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toilet	det
13	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 trips	case
15	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 needed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Ava		any teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
3	need	past	Ava	the toilet		trips	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toilet=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 · ← Mova's choice

Teachers would guess every time without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guess	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 guess	aux
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guess	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 guess	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	would	Teachers				time		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Teachers not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing; asking is only something younger kids do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 asking	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 something	csubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 something	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 kids	amod
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	asking	something	tree rules
3	do	present	younger kids		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She would get better at holding it forever

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 holding	mark
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holding	obj
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 holding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	She					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hold	gerund	She not said here	it				forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The same scary moment might happen again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happen	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 happen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might	the same scary moment				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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