Test 2 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

What would most likely happen if a child told a phone caller that they were home alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, they · What happens: happen, tell, be · To what, where: phone caller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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 told	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 caller	det
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caller	compound
12	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 home	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 home	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 home	cop
16	home	home	ADV	_	9 told	ccomp
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 home	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	a phone caller		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient
3	is	past	they		alone, home property	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

The parents would come home sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The caller would hang up and forget

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caller	det
2	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hang	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hang	aux
4	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 hang	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 forget	cc
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	would	the caller						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	forget	infinitive	the caller not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, because callers cannot see the house

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	_	7 see	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 see	mark
4	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	callers	the house					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A person with bad plans would know the house has no adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plans	amod
5	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 know	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 person	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	bad plans	the house					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
2	have	present	a person	no adult					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Patient

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