Test 8 · ★ · Trust that breaks and takes long to mend

What would happen if broken trust could never be mended at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, break, not mend · To what, where: broken trust, all

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 82 «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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	_	10 mended	mark
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trust	amod
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mended	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mended	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 mended	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 mended	aux:pass
10	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mended	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not mend a condition, not said to happen	could · passive	broken trust	all	tree rules

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 right answer

Nobody who made a mistake could ever be relied on again, even after changing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 relied	nsubj:pass
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nobody	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 relied	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 relied	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 relied	aux:pass
9	relied	rely	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 relied	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 relied	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changing	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 changing	advmod
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 changing	mark
15	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 relied	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	a mistake		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
2	rely on	could · passive	Nobody	ever; again	tree rules
3	change	gerund			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Everybody would be much more honest and careful, and nothing would ever go wrong between friends again

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 honest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 honest	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 honest	advmod
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 careful	cc
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 honest	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 go	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 honest	conj
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 friends	case
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everybody		honest property	tree rules
2	be		Everybody not said here			tree rules
3	go	would	nothing	ever; again	between friends; wrong property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between friend=Location

Option 3

Nothing would change, because trust doesn't matter much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 matter	mark
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matter	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 change	parataxis
10	much	much	ADV	_	9 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not matter	present · do-support	trust						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Friendships would last longer because people would be careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 last	aux
3	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 last	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 careful	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 careful	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 careful	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 careful	cop
9	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 last	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	Friendships					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	people					careful property	tree rules

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