Test 4 · ★ · Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembranc…

What would happen if nobody ever wrote names on war memorials?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, write · To what, where: names, war memorials

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 64 «Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy» 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	_	7 wrote	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 wrote	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 wrote	advmod
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrote	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 memorials	case
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 memorials	compound
11	memorials	memorial	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 names	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	names		war memorials	ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on memorial=Destination

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

The names would appear on the stones by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	would	the names			the stones		by names = name	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody would have died in any war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 died	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 died	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	aux
4	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	Nobody					in any war	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute

Option 3

Wars would never have happened at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 happened	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happened	aux
5	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 happened	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many real people who died would be forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 forgotten	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 forgotten	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgotten	aux:pass
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Many real people						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	forget	would · passive		Many real people					tree rules

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