Test 4 · ★ · Funny pranks

What would have happened if Ruby had said «only joking!» a minute later?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby · What happens: happen, say, joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 438 «Funny pranks» 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 said	mark
6	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 joking	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 joking	advmod
11	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 joking	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 joking	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 minute	det
15	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 later	obl:unmarked
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 joking	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Ruby		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	joke speech: other in a quote	gerund	Ruby not said here	late property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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

Her friend would still fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fail	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 fail	advmod
5	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	would	Her friend				still		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The test would have been cancelled for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 test	det
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cancelled	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cancelled	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cancelled	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cancelled	aux:pass
6	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cancelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	would · perfect · passive		the test				for real	tree rules

Option 3

The teacher would punish Ruby

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 punish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 punish	aux
4	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	would	the teacher	Ruby					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruby=Patient

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

Her friend would have studied and been fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 studied	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 studied	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 studied	aux
5	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 studied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	would · perfect · passive		Her friend					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	participle						fine property	tree rules

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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