Test 6 · ★ · Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness

If nobody needed planning permission, what might happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, permission · What happens: need, plan, happen · To what, where: permission

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 33 «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 needed	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	planning	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 needed	xcomp
5	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planning	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happen	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permission	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	past	nobody		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	plan not said to happen	gerund	nobody not said here	permission	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Topic
3	happen	might	permission		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	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 · ✓ the right answer

Someone could build a tower that blocks your light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 build	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 build	aux
3	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 blocks	nsubj
7	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tower	acl:relcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 light	nmod:poss
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	could	Someone	a tower	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Product
2	block	present	a tower	your light	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=Theme
3	light		your		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Every house would get bigger for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 free	case
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	every house					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The council would build everyone a garden at the back of the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 build	aux
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 build	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	would	the council	a garden	everyone	the back of the house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Beneficiary garden=Product

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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