Test 9 · ★★★ · Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back

What would happen if apologies never came with any change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: apologies · What happens: happen, not come

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 90 «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 came	mark
5	apologies	apology	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 change	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 change	det
10	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come a condition, not said to happen	past	apologies					with any change	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Sorry would become an empty word and nobody would trust it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trust	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 trust	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trust	aux
10	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Sorry	a empty word					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	trust	would	nobody	word					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Nothing; sorry works on its own anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 works	punct
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 works	amod
4	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 works	nmod
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 works	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Everyone would be happier and kinder, because nobody would feel guilty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 happier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kinder	cc
6	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 happier	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feel	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 feel	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 feel	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	aux
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	conj
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone	happy property	tree rules
2	be		Everyone not said here		tree rules
3	feel	would	nobody	guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

People would stop doing wrong things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	People						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	do	gerund	People not said here	wrong things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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.

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