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title: What would probably have happened if Kyle kept snapping back for mon… — Reading people in hard times: what's r… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably have happened if Kyle kept snapping back for months? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mea…

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What would probably have happened if Kyle kept snapping back for months?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kyle · **What happens:** happen, keep, snap back

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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/28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face:t2:1
# text = What would probably have happened if Kyle kept snapping back for months?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Kyle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **snap back** | gerund | Kyle *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dev's dad would have moved back home and everything would be normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face:t2:o2:1
# text = Dev's dad would have moved back home and everything would be normal
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move back** | would · perfect | Dev's dad |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | everything |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The friendship would likely have broken while Dev struggled alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face:t2:o3:1
# text = The friendship would likely have broken while Dev struggled alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Dev	Dev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | would · perfect · passive |  | the friendship |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **struggle** | past | Dev |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dev would have told him everything straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face:t2:o4:1
# text = Dev would have told him everything straight away
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | Dev | everything | him *= he* |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic |

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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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