Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

Lowkey scary, what would happen if the youth messed up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: happen, mess up

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» of the books 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 scary	nsubj
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happen	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scary	parataxis
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 messed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 messed	nsubj
10	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 happen	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 messed	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scary	punct

#	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	mess up a condition, not said to happen	participle	the youth						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 · ← Mova's choice

he would lose his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crown	nmod:poss
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	he	his crown					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality
2	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he'd get whipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whipped	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 whipped	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 whipped	aux:pass
4	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	would · passive		he					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 3

he'd be banished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 banished	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 banished	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 banished	aux:pass
4	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	would · passive		he					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he would lose his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	he	his life					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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