Test 10 · The new kid and the first day

What would most likely have happened to Ada if Sam hadn't asked her to play?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, have, not ask, play · To what, where: Ada, Sam

This is test 10 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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	6 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 happened	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ada	case
8	Ada	Ada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	advcl
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 asked	advmod
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect		Ada	likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not ask speech: ask	past	Sam not said here	Sam		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sam not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She'd have taken over the game of tig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tig	case
9	tig	tig	NOUN	_	7 game	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect	She			the game of tig			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She'd have moved school that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moved	nsubj
2	'd	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	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

Nothing, she wanted to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wanted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 alone	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 alone	cop
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nothing						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here					alone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'd have stood alone longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	aux
4	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	would · perfect	She					alone, long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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