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title: What would happen if Mia had pushed Lucy hard about «the family thin… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Mia had pushed Lucy hard about «the family thing»? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few

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What would happen if Mia had pushed Lucy hard about «the family thing»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, push · **To what, where:** Mia

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t5:1
# text = What would happen if Mia had pushed Lucy hard about «the family thing»?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | Mia |  |  |  | about the family thing; hard *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme lucy=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Lucy might have felt worse and not told her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t5:o1:1
# text = Lucy might have felt worse and not told her
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | might · perfect | Lucy |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lucy *not said here* |  | Lucy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would have changed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing would have changed
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would · perfect · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lucy would have told the truth faster and felt much better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t5:o3:1
# text = Lucy would have told the truth faster and felt much better
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | Lucy | the truth |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Lucy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Lucy would have come to the sleepover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t5:o4:1
# text = Lucy would have come to the sleepover
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would · perfect | Lucy |  |  | the sleepover |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleepover=Initial\_Location |

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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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