Test 8 · A stranger's story

What would happen if Kai had gone off alone with the lady to find her dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: happen, go off, find · To what, where: dog

This is test 8 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» 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 gone	mark
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 gone	compound:prt
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 lady	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dog	nmod:poss
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Kai		with the lady; alone property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	Kai not said here	Kai's dog		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

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 dog would have been found faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · perfect · passive		the dog				fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2

Nothing, because all lost-dog stories are true and dogs do get lost

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 lost	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 true	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stories	det
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stories	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stories	compound
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 true	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dogs	cc
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 true	conj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux
14	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	all lost dog stories		true property	tree rules
3	lose	present · passive · do-support		Nothing		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

His mum would be proud he went alone

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 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proud	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 proud	cop
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	ccomp
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	His mum					proud property	tree rules
2	go	past	he					alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd have been in danger if her story wasn't true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 danger	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 danger	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 danger	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 danger	case
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 true	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 story	nmod:poss
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 true	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 true	advmod
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 danger	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	He			danger			tree rules
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	her story					true property	tree rules

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