Test 3 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

What would have happened if Balkis had not spoken to the Butterfly's Wife?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not speak · To what, where: Balkis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 spoken	mark
6	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spoken	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoken	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 spoken	advmod
9	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 Wife	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Butterfly	det
12	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Butterfly	case
14	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoken	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Balkis				to the Butterfly's Wife	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

They'd be happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happy	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Queens might never have been frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queens	det
2	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 frightened	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 frightened	aux:pass
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not frighten	might · perfect · passive		the Queens					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

Suleiman would never have laughed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 laughed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 laughed	aux
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	would · perfect · passive		Suleiman		all			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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