Test 9 · ★★★ · Growing apart

What would have happened if Sam kept following Jake to the bike shed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, keep, follow · To what, where: Jake, bike shed

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 shed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shed	det
12	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shed	compound
13	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam			tree rules
3	follow	gerund	Sam not said here	Jake	the bike shed	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jake=Theme to shed=Trajectory

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

Jake would have dropped his new mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dropped	aux
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mates	nmod:poss
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mates	amod
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	would · perfect	Jake	Jake's new mates					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme

Option 2

The Year 6 lads would have made Sam king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Year	det
2	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl:unmarked
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 lads	nummod
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Year	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 king	compound
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect		Sam king			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product

Option 3

Nothing at all would change for Sam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Sam	case
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for Sam	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More «little nerd» and more hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nerd	amod
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 nerd	punct
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nerd	amod
4	nerd	nerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 nerd	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 hurt	amod
8	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nerd	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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