Test 11 · Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first

What would happen if families never asked the questions before getting a pet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: families · What happens: happen, not ask, get · To what, where: questions, pet

This is test 11 of lesson 325 «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology 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 asked	mark
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asked	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 asked	advmod
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 questions	det
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asked	obj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 getting	mark
11	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 asked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pet	det
13	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 getting	obj
14	?	?	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	not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	families	the questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	get	gerund	families not said here	a pet	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus

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

Vets would become free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Vets					free property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

More animals would end up given away to rescue centres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 end	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 given	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rescue	mark
9	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 given	advcl
10	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rescue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end up	would	More animals			tree rules
2	give away	participle	More animals not said here		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	rescue	to-infinitive	More animals not said here	centres		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Theme

Option 3

Pets would choose their own families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	aux
3	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 families	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 families	amod
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	would	Pets	Pets's own families					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Every pet would be perfectly cared for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cared	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cared	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cared	aux:pass
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 cared	advmod
6	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 cared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	would · passive		every pet				perfectly property	tree rules

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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