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title: What would probably happen if Clementine never told her parents how… — Rich families: the big house, the nann… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably happen if Clementine never told her parents how much the play mattered? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad

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What would probably happen if Clementine never told her parents how much the play mattered?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Clementine · **What happens:** happen, not tell, matter · **To what, where:** parents, much play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:t5:1
# text = What would probably happen if Clementine never told her parents how much the play mattered?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Clementine	Clementine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	iobj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	mattered	matter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Clementine |  | Clementine's parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 3 | **matter** | participle |  | the much play *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Nothing, parents always know how kids feel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, parents always know how kids feel
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | parents | Nothing |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | present | kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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They might keep missing things without knowing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:t5:o2:1
# text = They might keep missing things without knowing
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | might | They | missing things |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would cancel every work trip for ever after that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:t5:o3:1
# text = They would cancel every work trip for ever after that
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | would | They | every work trip |  |  | after that |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would read her mind and come next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:t5:o4:1
# text = They would read her mind and come next time
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | They | her mind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mind** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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