Test 9 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

What would most likely have happened if Kieran kept lending Deano money every week?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: happen, keep, lend · To what, where: Deano money

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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	_	9 kept	mark
8	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	advcl
10	lending	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	Deano	Deano	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 money	compound
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lending	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lending	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	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	Kieran				tree rules
3	lend	gerund	Kieran not said here	Deano money	week		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

Deano would pay it all back Friday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deano	Deano	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	Deano	it			friday		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient back=Asset

Option 2

The debt would vanish by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debt	det
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the debt					by debt	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kieran would keep losing money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	Kieran						tree rules
2	lose	gerund	Kieran not said here	money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

Option 4

Deano would start lending to Kieran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deano	Deano	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lending	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Kieran	case
6	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Deano						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lend	gerund	Deano not said here		Kieran				vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kieran=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/t9/