Test 9 · The pet that loves you most

What would happen if no one fed Chloe's guinea pigs while she was away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: happen, feed, be · To what, where: one

This is test 9 of lesson 460 «The pet that loves you most» 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	_	11 pigs	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Chloe	nsubj
7	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	acl
8	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pigs	compound
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Chloe	case
10	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigs	compound
11	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 away	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 away	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 away	cop
15	away	away	ADV	_	3 happen	advcl
16	?	?	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	feed	participle		no one not said here		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	she		away property	tree rules

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

They'd find food in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	They	food		the garden			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

They'd squeak until the food came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squeak	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 squeak	aux
3	squeak	squeak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 squeak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	would	They						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the food						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They'd be fine for a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 month	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They				month	fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They'd become ill and could die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 die	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	They					ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	die	could	They not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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