Test 4 · ★ · Life is precious: wonder and gratitude

What would happen if nobody ever said thank you for anything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, say, thank · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 54 «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics 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 thank	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 thank	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nobody	acl
8	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 anything	case
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 thank	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	participle			ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank a condition, not said to happen	present	nobody	you		for anything	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for anything=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

People might notice less of what is good and feel less glad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 notice	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 notice	aux
3	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 good	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 good	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 notice	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feel	cc
10	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 notice	conj
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 feel	obj
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	notice	might	People			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present			good property	tree rules
3	feel	present	People not said here	less	glad property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme

Option 2

Food would stop growing on farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 farms	case
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Food						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Food not said here			farms			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location

Option 3

Nothing would ever go wrong again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	Nothing				ever; again	wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Everyone would be much happier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happier	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 happier	advmod
5	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would						happy property	tree rules

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