Test 5 · «Only one left!»: shops and adverts

What would happen if the toy car advert showed it at real speed, on carpet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car advert · What happens: happen, show · To what, where: carpet, it, real speed

This is test 5 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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	_	9 showed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 advert	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	compound
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advert	compound
8	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showed	nsubj
9	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 showed	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 speed	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speed	amod
13	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carpet	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 carpet	case
16	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				carpet			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on carpet=Location
2	show a condition, not said to happen	past	the car advert	it		real speed			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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

The advert would be against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 advert	det
2	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 law	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 law	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the advert					against the law	tree rules

Option 2

The car would go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the car					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer kids would beg for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beg	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beg	aux
4	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beg	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	would	Fewer kids					for it	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for it=Topic

Option 4

More kids would want it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	More kids	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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