Test 5 · ★★ · Active and passive voice, modal verbs

What would happen if Mum turned "You must go to bed" into "You might go to bed"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, You · What happens: happen, turn, go · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» of the English 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	_	6 turned	mark
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turned	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 bed	punct
14	into	into	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 bed	case
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	Mum		tree rules
3	go in a quote	must	You	bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	go in a quote	might	You	bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would turn an order into a maybe

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 order	det
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 a	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 turn	obl
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It	a order		a		maybe property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent order=Theme into a=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would change it to the past tense

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 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 change	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 tense	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tense	det
7	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tense	amod
8	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	It	it				to the past tense	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

It would make it a stronger order

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 order	det
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 order	amod
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary order=Product

Option 4

It would mean the same thing exactly

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 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 mean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It	the same thing				exactly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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