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title: What would probably happen if Nadia told her parents calmly that the… — The only child: all the attention and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably happen if Nadia told her parents calmly that the checking feels like no trust? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 499 «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★★ · The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling

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What would probably happen if Nadia told her parents calmly that the checking feels like no trust?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nadia, checking · **What happens:** happen, tell, feel · **To what, where:** parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 499 «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling:t4:1
# text = What would probably happen if Nadia told her parents calmly that the checking feels like no trust?
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	Nadia	Nadia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	iobj	_	_
10	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	checking	checking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Nadia |  | Nadia's parents |  |  | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | present | the checking |  |  |  |  | like no trust | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like trust=Theme |

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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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They would stop helping her with anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling:t4:o1:1
# text = They would stop helping her with anything
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	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **help** | gerund | They *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  | with anything | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with anything=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would check twice as often from then on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling:t4:o2:1
# text = They would check twice as often from then on
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	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | would | They |  |  |  |  | often, twice *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would never speak to her ever again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling:t4:o3:1
# text = They would never speak to her ever again
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | would | They |  | her *= she* |  | again |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They might agree to a deal, like Fridays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling:t4:o4:1
# text = They might agree to a deal, like Fridays
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	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | might | They |  |  |  | friday | to a deal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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