Test 8 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully

What would probably happen if Sam had chased his ball into the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, chase · To what, where: Sam, river

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 472 «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 chased	mark
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chased	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chased	aux
8	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happen	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ball	nmod:poss
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chased	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chased	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Sam		the river			tree rules

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

He'd get the ball back easily

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	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	would	He	the ball				easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The weir would stop the ball for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weir	det
2	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the weir	the ball				for him = he	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ball=Eventuality

Option 3

Gaz would say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gaz	Gaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Gaz	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He could be pulled under and badly hurt

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 pulled	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulled	aux:pass
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	4 pulled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pulled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	could · passive		He					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result
2	hurt	participle						badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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