Test 4 · ★ · Fire at home

What would most likely happen if a family had no meeting place?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: meeting place

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 34 «Fire at home» of the everyday 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 place	det
11	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	compound
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a family	no meeting place					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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

Nothing, because a meeting place is not needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needed	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 needed	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	compound
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 needed	advmod
9	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		a meeting place					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The firefighters would arrive sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 firefighters	det
2	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrive	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 arrive	aux
4	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	would	the firefighters					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Someone might go back in looking for a person who is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 go	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 go	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 safe	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go back	might	Someone		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	look	gerund	Someone not said here	for a person	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for person=Theme
3	is	present	a person	safe property	tree rules

Option 4

They would escape more quickly from the house

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	3 escape	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 escape	aux
3	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 escape	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	would	They			the house		quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location

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