Test 4 · ★★ · The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye

What would happen if Biscuit's family let him go on in great pain with no hope of getting better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, Biscuit, hope · What happens: happen, let, go, get · To what, where: Biscuit, great pain

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 56 «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 let	mark
5	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Biscuit	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 pain	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pain	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pain	amod
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hope	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 hope	det
17	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pain	nmod
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 getting	mark
19	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 hope	acl
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 getting	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	past	Biscuit's family	Biscuit			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Biscuit not said here		great pain with no hope		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pain=Location
4	get	gerund	no hope not said here			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nothing, because old dogs do not feel any pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 feel	mark
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 feel	advmod
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 pain	det
10	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · do-support	old dogs	any pain					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme

Option 2

He would heal all by himself within a week

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 heal	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 heal	aux
3	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 himself	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 heal	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	would	He				week	by himself = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would slowly get younger and stronger again

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	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stronger	cc
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 younger	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He				again	slowly, young property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He would suffer every day until he died

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 suffer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 suffer	aux
3	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffer	obl:unmarked
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suffer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	would	He				day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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