Test 9 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

What would probably happen if Connor's mum kept lending Sharon money?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: happen, keep, lend · To what, where: Sharon money

This is test 9 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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	_	9 kept	mark
6	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Connor	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
10	lending	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	Sharon	Sharon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 money	compound
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lending	obj
13	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Connor's mum			tree rules
3	lend	gerund	Connor's mum not said here	Sharon money		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

Nothing at all would change for either of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 either	case
7	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	5 change	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 either	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for either	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Sharon would turn into a better, kinder friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharon	Sharon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	9 friend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 friend	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
8	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Sharon					into a better kinder friend result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into friend=Result

Option 3

Sharon would pay it all back at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharon	Sharon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 it	det
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	would	Sharon	it					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'd keep losing money to a one-way friend

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 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 losing	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 way	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friend	compound
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	She						tree rules
2	lose	gerund	She not said here	money				to a way friend	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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