Test 4 · When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies

What would happen if Ava kept believing she killed her fish when she did not?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: happen, keep, believe, kill, not do · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 55 «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» 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	_	6 kept	mark
5	Ava	Ava	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	6 kept	xcomp
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 killed	nsubj
9	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 believing	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fish	nmod:poss
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 killed	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 did	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 killed	advcl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 did	advmod
16	?	?	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	Ava		tree rules
3	believe	gerund	Ava not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kill	past	Ava	Ava's fish	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
5	not do	past	Ava		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She would carry guilt that does not belong to her

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	would	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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 belong	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 belong	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 belong	advmod
8	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guilt	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	She	guilt	her = she				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme to she=Destination
2	not belong	present · do-support	guilt						vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all, because feeling guilty never hurts anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurts	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hurts	mark
6	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hurts	csubj
7	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	xcomp
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 hurts	advmod
9	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund						guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not hurt	present	feeling	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 3

She would become a much better swimmer than before

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swimmer	det
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 swimmer	amod
7	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	3 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	She	a better swimmer				before property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The fish would slowly come back to life in its bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bowl	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bowl	nmod:poss
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

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

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