--- title: What would most likely happen if Avery never told Mum how the phone… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: What would most likely happen if Avery never told Mum how the phone made her feel? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Cold parents: always on the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone What would most likely happen if Avery never told Mum how the phone made her feel? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Avery, phone · **What happens:** happen, not tell, make, feel · **To what, where:** Mum, Avery · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone:t8:1 # text = What would most likely happen if Avery never told Mum how the phone made her feel? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 4 advmod _ _ 4 likely likely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 Avery Avery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Avery | | Mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** | past | the phone | Avery | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | Avery *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} The phone would break by itself ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone:t8:o1:1 # text = The phone would break by itself 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 break break 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 _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | would | the phone | | | | | by phone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Mum would read her mind ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone:t8:o2:1 # text = Mum would read her mind 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | would | Mum | Mum's mind | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic | | 2 | **mind** | | Mum | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Avery would stop caring ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone:t8:o3:1 # text = Avery would stop caring 1 Avery Avery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 caring care VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | would | Avery | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **care** | gerund | Avery *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Mum might never notice ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone:t8:o4:1 # text = Mum might never notice 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **notice** | might | Mum | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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