Test 2 · ★ · Stop, think, check, ask

What would happen if your speaker had no PIN and your little cousin shouted "buy that game"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speaker, little cousin · What happens: happen, have, shout, buy · To what, where: PIN, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Stop, think, check, ask» of the AI 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 speaker	nmod:poss
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 PIN	det
9	PIN	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 buy	cc
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cousin	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cousin	amod
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buy	nsubj
14	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 buy	amod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 buy	punct
16	buy	buy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 game	det
18	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buy	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 buy	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	your speaker	no PIN	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
3	shout speech: express	participle			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	buy in a quote		your little cousin	that game	tree rules

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

Nothing, speakers can't buy things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 speakers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 buy	advmod
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	can	Nothing speakers	things					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 2

The speaker would ask Grandma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would	the speaker		Grandma				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandma=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The game would be completely free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 free	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 free	cop
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 free	advmod
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the game					completely, free property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It might spend real money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spend	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spend	aux
3	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	might	It	real money					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset

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