Test 7 · Blocking, muting and walking away

What would probably happen if Lily only learned the block button after a stranger messaged her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, stranger · What happens: happen, learn, message · To what, where: block button, Lily

This is test 7 of lesson 481 «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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 learned	mark
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 learned	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 learned	advmod
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 button	det
10	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 button	compound
11	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learned	obj
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 messaged	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stranger	det
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 messaged	nsubj
15	messaged	message	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 learned	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 messaged	obj
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	learn a condition, not said to happen	past	Lily	the block button		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Topic
3	message	past	a stranger	Lily		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

The stranger would block her first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 block	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 block	aux
4	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 block	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 block	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	would	the stranger	her = she				first property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme

Option 2

Nothing bad can ever happen online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	online	online	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	can	Nothing				ever	online property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

She'd panic and not know what to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 panic	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 panic	aux
3	panic	panic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 know	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 panic	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	panic	would	She	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not know	infinitive	She not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

She'd be perfectly ready for it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ready	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ready	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	She					for it; anyway, perfectly, ready property	tree rules

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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