Test 2 · ★ · Debating and discussion

What would happen if nobody took turns?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, take · To what, where: turns

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 49 «Debating and discussion» 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 took	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	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	take a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	turns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody would be heard properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 heard	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	aux:pass
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would · passive		Nobody				properly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

The debate would be faster and better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debate	det
2	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 faster	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 faster	cop
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 better	cc
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 faster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the debate					fast property	tree rules
2	be		the debate not said here						tree rules

Option 3

The best reason would win anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 reason	amod
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	the best reason					anyway property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Everyone would agree much sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 agree	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 agree	aux
3	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 sooner	advmod
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 agree	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	would	Everyone					soon property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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