Test 11 · The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"

What would happen if teachers always kept the whole class in when one person did something?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: teachers, one person · What happens: happen, keep in, do · To what, where: whole class, something

This is test 11 of lesson 168 «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» 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	_	7 kept	mark
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 kept	advmod
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 class	amod
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	7 kept	compound:prt
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 did	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 person	nummod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	advcl
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 did	obj
17	?	?	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	keep in a condition, not said to happen	past	teachers	the whole class	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme
3	do	past	one person	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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

Nobody in the class would ever misbehave again, so it would be worth it

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	7 misbehave	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 misbehave	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 misbehave	advmod
7	misbehave	misbehave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 misbehave	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worth	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 worth	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worth	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 worth	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 worth	cop
14	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 misbehave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misbehave	would	Nobody				ever; again		tree rules
2	is	would	class					worth property	tree rules

Option 2

Only the guilty child would miss break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 miss	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miss	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 miss	aux
6	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	the guilty child	break					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus

Option 3

The class would get extra break time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 class	det
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
6	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the class				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lots of children who did nothing would be punished unfairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 punished	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 children	case
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 children	acl:relcl
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 did	obj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 punished	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 punished	aux:pass
9	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	_	9 punished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	children	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	punish	would · passive		Lots of children				unfairly property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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