Test 9 · ★★ · The group chat that turns

What would probably happen if nobody showed a grown-up the photo of Sam asleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, show, grow up · To what, where: grown photo

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 479 «The group chat that turns» 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 showed	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 photo	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 photo	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 photo	det
13	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Sam	case
15	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 photo	nmod
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Sam	amod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	a grown photo of Sam		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient
3	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Sam would find it funny later and post it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	xcomp
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 find	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 post	cc
8	post	post	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 post	obj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 post	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Sam	it				funny, late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	post	infinitive	Sam not said here	it				Sam obl:unmarked	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would keep spreading and Sam would stay upset

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 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stay	cc
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stay	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	conj
9	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It		tree rules
2	spread	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	would	Sam	upset property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Everyone would forget by teatime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 teatime	case
5	teatime	teatime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	Everyone					by teatime	tree rules

Option 4

It would vanish on its own in a day or so

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 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vanish	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 so	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	3 vanish	conj

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

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