Test 6 · ★★ · Covering for a friend

What would have happened if Darragh had owned up on day one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, own up · To what, where: Darragh

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 436 «Covering for 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	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 owned	mark
6	Darragh	Darragh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 owned	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 owned	aux
8	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 owned	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	compound
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	own up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Darragh				on day one	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Nobody would believe him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 believe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	would	Nobody	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The class wouldn't have missed a week of break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 class	det
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 missed	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 missed	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 missed	aux
6	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 break	case
10	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 week	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not miss	would · perfect	the class				week		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The whole class would have missed even more break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 class	amod
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 missed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 missed	aux
6	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 break	amod
9	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would · perfect	the whole class	more break					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus

Option 4

The teacher would give a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the teacher	a prize					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme

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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