Test 9 · ★ · Joining a game, and the shy kid

What would most likely have happened if Mia had kept asking «can you even talk?» every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, you · What happens: happen, keep, ask, talk · To what, where: Mia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 466 «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
8	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 happened	advcl
11	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 talk	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 talk	nsubj
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 talk	advmod
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asking	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talk	obl:unmarked
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Mia			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	Mia not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	talk in a quote	can	you		day		vn talk-37.5 «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

He'd have started shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 started	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 started	aux
4	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would · perfect	He						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shout speech: express	gerund	He not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The boy would have hidden from her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hidden	aux
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hidden	obl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would · perfect · passive		the boy				from her = she	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from she=Beneficiary

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 4

He'd have become her best friend by the end of the week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 week	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would · perfect	He	her best friend			by the end of the week		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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