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title: What would probably happen if Zelda kept tiptoeing every night for y… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably happen if Zelda kept tiptoeing every night for years and told nobody? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

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What would probably happen if Zelda kept tiptoeing every night for years and told nobody?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Zelda · **What happens:** happen, keep, tiptoe, tell · **To what, where:** nobody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t6:1
# text = What would probably happen if Zelda kept tiptoeing every night for years and told nobody?
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	Zelda	Zelda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	tiptoeing	tiptoe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Zelda |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tiptoe** | gerund | Zelda *not said here* |  |  |  | night; year |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Zelda *not said here* |  | nobody |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |

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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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The worry would vanish by itself one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t6:o1:1
# text = The worry would vanish by itself one day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | the worry |  |  |  | day | by worry | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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She'd carry a lot of worry on her own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t6:o2:1
# text = She'd carry a lot of worry on her own
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | would | She | a lot of worry |  | her own |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dad would be in a good mood for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t6:o3:1
# text = Dad would be in a good mood for ever
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Dad |  |  | a good mood |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She'd become a famous ballet dancer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t6:o4:1
# text = She'd become a famous ballet dancer
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dancer	dancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | She | a famous ballet dancer |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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