Test 7 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice

What would happen if everyone always said "You were the best!" to friends who lost?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, You, friends · What happens: happen, say, be, lose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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	_	7 said	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 said	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 best	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 best	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 best	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 best	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 friends	case
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lost	nsubj
18	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to friends	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	You	good property	tree rules
4	lose	past	friends		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Everyone would become faster runners by next week, because they'd feel so good about themselves

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 runners	amod
5	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 feel	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	aux
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feel	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 themselves	case
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Everyone	faster runners			week		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	feel	would	runners = runner					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody would ever feel sad again about losing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 losing	mark
8	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	Nobody				ever; again	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lose	gerund	Nobody not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Praise would stop meaning anything and nobody would know how to improve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 know	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nobody	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 anything	conj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meaning	ccomp
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 improve	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 improve	mark
12	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	would	Praise	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	mean	gerund	Praise not said here	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	would	anything	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	improve	to-infinitive	anything not said here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Races would be cancelled because everyone won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cancelled	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cancelled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cancelled	aux:pass
4	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 won	mark
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 won	nsubj
7	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cancelled	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	would · passive		Races					tree rules
2	win	past	everyone						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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