Test 7 · ★ · April Fools' Day

What would have happened if Sam had joked «Mr Hughes is wearing odd socks» instead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr · What happens: happen, joke, wear · To what, where: Sam, odd socks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» 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 joked	mark
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 joked	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 joked	aux
8	joked	joke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 wearing	punct
10	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wearing	nsubj
11	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mr	flat
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wearing	aux
13	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 joked	conj
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 socks	amod
15	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wearing	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 wearing	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 wearing	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	joke speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Sam		tree rules
3	wear in a quote	present · progressive	Mr	odd socks	instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sock=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

A girl would still have cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	aux
6	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would · perfect · passive		a girl			still		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mr Hughes would leave the school for good, just like the joke said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leave	nsubj
2	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 school	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 joke	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	Mr	the school				for good	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Theme for good=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the joke						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The class would be punished

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	5 punished	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 punished	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 punished	aux:pass
5	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	would · passive		the class					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People could laugh with nobody sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laugh	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 nobody	case
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 laugh	obl
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laugh	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	could	People					with nobody; sad property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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