Test 7 · ★★ · Calling emergency services well

What would most likely happen if lots of people made joke calls to the emergency number?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lots · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: joke calls

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Calling emergency services well» 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	_	10 made	mark
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lots	nmod
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 calls	compound
12	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 number	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 number	compound
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
17	?	?	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	make a condition, not said to happen	past	lots of people	joke calls				to the emergency number	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product

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

Nothing, because joke calls are ignored

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 ignored	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 ignored	mark
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	compound
5	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ignored	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ignored	aux:pass
7	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present · passive		joke calls					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Real callers would wait longer for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 callers	amod
2	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wait	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 wait	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	Real callers					for help; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The number would be changed every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 changed	aux:pass
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would · passive		the number			day		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Ambulances would drive faster everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drive	aux
3	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 drive	advmod
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	would	Ambulances					everywhere, fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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