Test 11 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend
If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have happened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie, revenge, Kieran · What happens: join, happen, revenge · To what, where: revenge
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 joined | mark |
| 2 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joined | aux |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Kieran | case |
| 7 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 likely | advmod |
| 12 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 14 happened | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 revenge | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 joined | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past · perfect | Maddie | Kieran's revenge | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | would · perfect | Kieran's revenge | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | revenge | Kieran | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 teachers would never find out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teachers | det |
| 2 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find out | would | the teachers | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Kieran would be happy and safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happy | cop |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 safe | cc |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Kieran | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Kieran not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
The Station Road boys would give up forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 2 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boys | compound |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 give | compound:prt |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | would | the Road boys | forever property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A new fight and more trouble for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fight | amod |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trouble | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 trouble | amod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 everyone | case |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 trouble | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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