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title: What would happen if Grace's dad had said «I'm so sorry, love, Hammy… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Grace's dad had said «I'm so sorry, love, Hammy died»? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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 6 · ★ · Lied to by someone you love

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What would happen if Grace's dad had said «I'm so sorry, love, Hammy died»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad, Hammy · **What happens:** happen, say, be, die · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t6:1
# text = What would happen if Grace's dad had said «I'm so sorry, love, Hammy died»?
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	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Hammy	Hammy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	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 | Grace's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grace's dad *= dad* |  |  |  |  | love *vocative*; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | Hammy |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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Grace would never find out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t6:o1:1
# text = Grace would never find out
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find out** | would | Grace |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Grace would be sad but not tricked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t6:o2:1
# text = Grace would be sad but not tricked
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Grace |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **trick** | participle | Grace *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grace would be angry for years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t6:o3:1
# text = Grace would be angry for years
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Grace |  |  |  | year | angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Grace would want three hamsters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t6:o4:1
# text = Grace would want three hamsters
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | would | Grace | three hamsters |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hamster=Theme |

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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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