Test 5 · Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»

What would happen if Lily kept her fear about Dad's cough a secret?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, Dad · What happens: happen, keep, fear, cough · To what, where: fear

This is test 5 of lesson 70 «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fear	nmod:poss
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 cough	case
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cough	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Dad	case
12	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fear	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 secret	det
14	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Lily	Lily's fear	about Dad's cough	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fear=Theme about cough=Location
3	fear		Lily		about Dad's cough	nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent about=obl
4	cough		Dad			nom cough «state transitive»: poss=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

Dad would get ill because she worried so much about his cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 worried	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worried	nsubj
7	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	7 worried	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 cough	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cough	nmod:poss
12	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	would	Dad	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	worry	past	she	about Dad's cough	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about cough=Stimulus
3	cough		Dad		nom cough «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd carry the worry alone; telling Dad 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 carry	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worry	det
5	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 carry	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 telling	punct
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 helps	csubj
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carry	would	She	the worry		alone property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund			Dad		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
3	help	present	telling				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing; worries never grow

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	_	5 grow	punct
3	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	worries						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The worry would vanish by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worry	det
2	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing 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 worry					by worry	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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