Test 4 · ★★ · The forged signature and how it always ends

What would have happened if Ollie had told Mum he was scared of the deep end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ollie · What happens: happen, tell, be · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 429 «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	cop
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 end	amod
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scared	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Ollie	Mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
3	is	past	Ollie		of the deep end	scared 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

He'd have been banned from swimming for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 banned	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 banned	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 swimming	case
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	would · perfect · passive		He		swimming		for good	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from swimming=Eventuality

Option 2

Nothing at all would have changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 changed	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 changed	aux
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would · perfect	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He'd have been made to dive in on the first day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dive	mark
7	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 dive	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive		He					tree rules
2	dive in	to-infinitive	He not said here				day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He could have started in the shallow end with no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 started	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 started	aux
4	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 started	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lie	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	could · perfect	He				in the shallow end with no lie		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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