Test 12 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

What would happen in a class where everyone was laughed at for every mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, laugh · To what, where: class, everyone

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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	in	in	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 laughed	advmod
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 laughed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	aux:pass
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 class	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 laughed	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 mistake	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 mistake	det
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a class			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location
2	laugh	past · passive		everyone				for every mistake	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 class would be more fun for everyone

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	6 fun	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fun	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fun	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fun	amod
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 fun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the class	more fun				for everyone	tree rules

Option 2

Everyone would learn much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 learn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Everyone					fast property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nobody would ever make a mistake again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mistake	det
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Nobody	a mistake			ever; again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People would stop trying and stop asking questions

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	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	would	People		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	try	gerund	People not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	present	People not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	People not said here	questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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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