Test 7 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

What would probably happen if nobody had helped Mr Patel after the break-in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, help · To what, where: Mr

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 helped	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 helped	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 helped	aux
8	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happen	advcl
9	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helped	obj
10	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mr	flat
11	after	after	ADP	_	15 in	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 in	det
13	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 in	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 break	punct
15	in	in	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helped	obl
16	?	?	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	help a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	nobody		Mr		after the break in		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd feel alone and the shop might struggle

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 feel	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struggle	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struggle	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 struggle	aux
9	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	He					alone property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	struggle	might	the shop						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He'd be happier on his own

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	4 happier	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He			his own		happy property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing would be different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 different	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 different	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 different	cop
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nothing					different property	tree rules

Option 4

The thief would feel bad and bring the till back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bring	cc
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 till	det
9	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the thief					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	bring back	infinitive	the thief not said here	the till					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent till=Theme

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