--- title: What would probably happen if Ruby kept her worry secret every night? — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 pan… · tree and pragmatics description: What would probably happen if Ruby kept her worry secret every night? Test 3 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Writing assessment and the "Year 6 pan…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/) / t3 # Test 3 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" What would probably happen if Ruby kept her worry secret every night? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** happen, keep, worry · **To what, where:** worry This is test 3 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» of the English 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/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t3:1 # text = What would probably happen if Ruby kept her worry secret every night? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 probably probably ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Ruby | Ruby's worry | | | night | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme | | 3 | **worry** | | Ruby | | | | | | nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} It would grow and spoil her sleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t3:o1:1 # text = It would grow and spoil her sleep 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | would | It | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spoil** | infinitive | | her sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Her teacher would surely guess it anyway ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t3:o2:1 # text = Her teacher would surely guess it anyway 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 surely surely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | would | Her teacher | it | | | | anyway, surely *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} She would do much better because of it ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t3:o3:1 # text = She would do much better because of it 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 6 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | would | She | | | | | because it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} It would vanish on its own at once ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t3:o4:1 # text = It would vanish on its own at once 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | would | It | | | its own | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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