Test 7 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»

What would happen if Ollie had asked his brother before trading?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie · What happens: happen, ask, trade · To what, where: brother

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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	_	7 asked	mark
5	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	aux
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 trading	mark
11	trading	trade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 asked	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Ollie	Ollie's brother	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient
3	trade	gerund	Ollie not said here		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would have changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 changed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 changed	aux
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 2

His brother would have taken the cards for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cards	det
7	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect	His brother	the cards				for brother	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent card=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

Option 3

The trade would be even better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 trade	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the trade not said here					good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His brother would have spotted the fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spotted	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spotted	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spotted	aux
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fake	det
7	fake	fake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	would · perfect · passive		His brother					tree rules

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