Test 4 · ★★★ · Life and death: putting it all together

What would happen if Holly expected that grief might come back on Mum's birthday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Holly, grief · What happens: happen, expect, come back · To what, where: birthday

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 expected	mark
5	Holly	Holly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 expected	nsubj
6	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 expected	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 birthday	case
13	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 birthday	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Mum	case
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect a condition, not said to happen	past	Holly		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come back not said to happen	might	grief	Mum's birthday	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location

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

It would stop grief coming back at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It	grief					tree rules
2	come back	gerund				all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

She would forget the birthday entirely

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birthday	det
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obj
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	She	the birthday				entirely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd be less shocked, and could plan something special

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	5 shocked	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shocked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shocked	cop
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 shocked	advmod
5	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 plan	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	aux
9	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shocked	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 plan	obj
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	She					less, shocked property	tree rules
2	plan	could	She not said here	something					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

Option 4

It would make the day much worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 worse	advmod
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It				day	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

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