Test 4 · How best friends start

If Zoe had never asked Mia over, what might have happened?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zoe · What happens: not ask over, happen · To what, where: Mia

This is test 4 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 asked	mark
2	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 happened	advcl
6	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	iobj
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 happened	aux
12	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask over speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Zoe		Mia			over property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient
2	happen	might · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Mia would have asked a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	aux
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would · perfect	Mia		a horse				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They might never have become friends

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	5 become	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 become	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not become	might · perfect	They	friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

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 4 · ← Mova's choice

Zoe would have moved away without saying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 moved	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 moved	aux
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 moved	advmod
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 moved	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	would · perfect	Zoe					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Zoe not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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