Test 8 · ★ · Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book

What would happen if Ruby waits and her brother finds the deleted game himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, brother · What happens: happen, wait, find, delete · To what, where: deleted game

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 89 «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 waits	mark
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waits	nsubj
6	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finds	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	nsubj
10	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waits	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 game	det
12	deleted	delete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 game	amod
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	obj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 finds	obl
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	wait a condition, not said to happen	present	Ruby			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	present	Ruby's brother	the deleted game	brother obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic
4	delete	participle				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

He would forgive her faster, because she said nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forgive	aux
3	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 faster	nmod:poss
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 forgive	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgive	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	would	He					fast property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	she	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would likely be angrier and slower to forgive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angrier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 angrier	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 angrier	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 angrier	cop
5	angrier	angry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slower	cc
7	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 angrier	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 forgive	mark
9	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 slower	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	He	angry, likely property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here		tree rules
3	forgive	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He would think the game had simply deleted itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deleted	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deleted	aux
7	simply	simply	ADV	_	8 deleted	advmod
8	deleted	delete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 think	ccomp
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 deleted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	delete	past · perfect · passive		the game				simply property	tree rules

Option 4

He would never mind about it, since it's only a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mind	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 mind	advmod
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mind	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 game	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 game	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 game	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 game	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 game	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 game	det
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	would	He					about it	vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a game					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/t8/