Test 7 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

What would happen if Mum tasted her tea before saying "I'm the adult, so I'd know"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: happen, taste, say, be, know · To what, where: tea, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 tasted	mark
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tasted	nsubj
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tea	nmod:poss
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasted	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 saying	mark
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tasted	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 adult	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 adult	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 adult	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	parataxis
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			tree rules
2	taste a condition, not said to happen	past	Mum	Mum's tea	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme tea=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Mum not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	Mum	the adult	tree rules
5	know in a quote	would	Mum		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

She'd find the tea tasted much sweeter than it usually does

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 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tea	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasted	nsubj
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 sweeter	advmod
8	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 does	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 does	nsubj
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 does	advmod
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sweeter	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	find	would	She	sweet property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	taste	past	the tea		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	do	present	tea	usually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd find the salt and see that Leo was right

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 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salt	det
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 right	mark
9	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	would	She	the salt		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Topic
2	see	infinitive	She not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Leo		right property	tree rules

Option 3

She'd prove that adults are never wrong

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 prove	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wrong	mark
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrong	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 wrong	advmod
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prove	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	She						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	adults					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

She'd prove the sugar bowl was right

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 prove	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bowl	det
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowl	compound
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	She						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the sugar bowl					right property	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.

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