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title: What would happen if Noah kept saying "sore throat" to avoid reading… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Noah kept saying "sore throat" to avoid reading for the whole year? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight

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What would happen if Noah kept saying "sore throat" to avoid reading for the whole year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Noah · **What happens:** happen, keep, say, avoid, read · **To what, where:** sore throat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight:t6:1
# text = What would happen if Noah kept saying "sore throat" to avoid reading for the whole year?
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Noah *not said here* | sore throat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent throat=Topic |
| 4 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **read** | gerund | Noah *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His fear of reading out loud would probably grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight:t6:o1:1
# text = His fear of reading out loud would probably grow
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read out** | gerund | His fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | would | His fear |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His voice would simply stop cracking all by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight:t6:o2:1
# text = His voice would simply stop cracking all by itself
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | His voice |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund | His voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by voice; all *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His reading aloud would become perfect without practice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight:t6:o3:1
# text = His reading aloud would become perfect without practice
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | His reading |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **read** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Everyone would soon forget he had ever read out loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight:t6:o4:1
# text = Everyone would soon forget he had ever read out loud
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read out** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  | ever | loud, out *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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