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title: What would happen if Ben's mum had just said «screens off at 8, you… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Ben's mum had just said «screens off at 8, you need sleep» from the start? Test 6 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 6 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van

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What would happen if Ben's mum had just said «screens off at 8, you need sleep» from the start?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum, you · **What happens:** happen, say, need · **To what, where:** screens, 8, sleep, start · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» of the everyday 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/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van:t6:1
# text = What would happen if Ben's mum had just said «screens off at 8, you need sleep» from the start?
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	_	10	mark	_	_
5	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Ben's mum | screens |  | 8 |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent screen=Topic |
| 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | you | sleep |  | the start |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Ben would sleep less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van:t6:o1:1
# text = Ben would sleep less
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | Ben |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ben's tablet would break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van:t6:o2:1
# text = Ben's tablet would break
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | would | Ben's tablet |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Ben would know the real reason

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van:t6:o3:1
# text = Ben would know the real reason
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | Ben | the real reason |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing could ever change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van:t6:o4:1
# text = Nothing could ever change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | could | Nothing |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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