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title: What would happen if grown-ups told children every worry the moment… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if grown-ups told children every worry the moment it began? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Closed doors, whispers and secrets

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What would happen if grown-ups told children every worry the moment it began?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grown ups, worry · **What happens:** happen, grow, tell, child, begin · **To what, where:** worry, moment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets:t10:1
# text = What would happen if grown-ups told children every worry the moment it began?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | every worry |  |  | moment |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **child** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | worry | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Eventuality |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Children would worry about things that turn out to be nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets:t10:o1:1
# text = Children would worry about things that turn out to be nothing
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | would | Children |  |  |  |  | about things | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn out** | present | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | things *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, it would make no difference

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets:t10:o2:1
# text = Nothing, it would make no difference
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | Nothing | no difference |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grown-ups would stop having any worries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets:t10:o3:1
# text = Grown-ups would stop having any worries
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | would | Grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | any worries |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children would never feel worried about anything at all ever again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets:t10:o4:1
# text = Children would never feel worried about anything at all ever again
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feel** | would | Children |  |  | all | again | worried *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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**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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