Test 6 · Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb

What would happen if Holly lay awake every night and told nobody?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Holly · What happens: happen, lie, tell · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 66 «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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 lay	mark
5	Holly	Holly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lay	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 told	obj
13	?	?	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	lie a condition, not said to happen	past	Holly		night	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Holly not said here	nobody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

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 feelings would vanish by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feelings	det
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the feelings					by feelings = feeling	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She would forget her grandad completely

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 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandad	nmod:poss
5	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obj
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	She	her grandad				completely property	tree rules

Option 3

Her grandad would come back to visit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	Her grandad						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive	Her grandad not said here	her = she					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'd stay tired and alone with it; telling helps

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 stay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 alone	cc
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alone	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
10	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 helps	nsubj
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	would	She	tired property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	present			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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