Test 4 · ★★ · Living well because life is short

What would happen if Ethan and his brother made up before bed every time they argued?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan · What happens: happen, make up, argue · To what, where: time

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 76 «Living well because life is short» 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	_	9 made	mark
5	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brother	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Ethan	conj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 made	compound:prt
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl:unmarked
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 argued	nsubj
16	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make up a condition, not said to happen	past	Ethan and his brother		before bed; time	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	past	Ethan	every time not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent time=Topic

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

They'd never be friends again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 friends	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 friends	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	cop
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 friends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	would	They	friends			again		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They'd waste fewer days being angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
3	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 angry	nsubj
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waste	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	would	They						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	fewer days					angry property	tree rules

Option 3

They'd have to stop playing together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	would	They		tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	play	gerund	They not said here	together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Their anger would grow every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 anger	nmod:poss
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Their anger				night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	anger		Their = they						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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