Test 8 · «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home

What would happen if Jess had tidied properly from the start?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jess · What happens: happen, tidy · To what, where: start

This is test 8 of lesson 427 ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tidied	mark
5	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tidied	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tidied	aux
7	tidied	tidy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 tidied	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 start	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 start	det
11	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tidied	obl
12	?	?	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	tidy a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Jess			the start		properly 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 · ✓ the right answer

It would have taken less time than the avalanche

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl:unmarked
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 avalanche	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 avalanche	det
9	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect · passive		It			time	than the avalanche	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The apple would still be mouldy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouldy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mouldy	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 mouldy	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mouldy	cop
6	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the apple				still	mouldy property	tree rules

Option 3

She'd have needed twice as long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needed	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 needed	aux
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 needed	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · perfect	She					long, twice property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Mum would still find socks falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
6	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Mum	socks			still		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sock=Attribute clause=Theme
2	fall	gerund	socks not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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