Test 9 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

What would probably happen if Sam kept waiting at the lunch table every day for Jake?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, keep, wait · To what, where: lunch table

This is test 9 of lesson 478 «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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	_	7 kept	mark
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 table	compound
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 Jake	case
16	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam				tree rules
3	wait	gerund	Sam not said here	the lunch table	day	for Jake	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location

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

Zack would leave the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zack	Zack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	Zack	the school					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme

Option 2

The teacher would make Jake come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the teacher	Jake					tree rules
2	come back	infinitive	Jake not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Jake would come back the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	Jake				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd stay lonely and keep feeling 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	3 stay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	conj
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He	lonely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	He not said here		tree rules
3	feel	gerund	He not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hurt	participle	He not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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.

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