Test 3 · ★ · Feuds between families

What would probably happen if nobody in a feud ever made a kind move?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: kind move

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 474 «Feuds between families» 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	_	11 made	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 made	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 feud	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feud	det
9	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobody	nmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 move	det
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 move	amod
14	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
15	?	?	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	make a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	a kind move			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Product

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

Everyone would just forget and be friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friends	cop
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	Everyone						tree rules
2	is a	infinitive	Everyone not said here	friends					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The kids would sort it out by themselves at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sort	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	aux
4	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sort	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sort	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 sort	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sort	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	would	the kids	it				by kids = kid	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It would end by itself next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 end	obl
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	It				week	by itself = it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could go on for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	could	It				year		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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