Test 5 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

What would happen if Sam had let his dog off the lead near the swans?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, let · To what, where: Sam

This is test 5 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

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 let	mark
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
7	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dog	nmod:poss
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 lead	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lead	det
12	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 swans	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swans	det
15	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lead	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Sam				off the lead near the swans	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient dog=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

Nothing, swans never fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fight	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fight	advmod
5	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	present	swans						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The swan could hurt the dog badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swan	det
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obj
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	could	the swan	the dog				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Patient

Option 3

The swan would fly away scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swan	det
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fly	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	the swan					away, scared property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The dog would make friends

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	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the dog	friends					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product

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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