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Test 2 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

In Brisbane, a kid says «just chuck rocks at it, it'll learn». What would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: say, learn, happen · To what, where: chuck rocks, Brisbane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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

Sentence 1: In Brisbane, a kid says «just chuck rocks at it, it'll learn».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Brisbane	case
2	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brisbane	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 rocks	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 rocks	advmod
9	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rocks	compound
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rocks	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 learn	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 learn	aux
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid	chuck rocks		Brisbane		at it	tree rules
2	learn in a quote	future	kid						vn learn-14-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What would most likely happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would bring him presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	It	presents	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination present=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would swoop him even more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swoop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swoop	aux
3	swoop	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swoop	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swoop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	would	It	him = he					tree rules

Option 3

It would move away that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	would	It				day	away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would leave him alone forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	It	him = he				alone, forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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