Test 8 · ★★ · Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did

What would probably happen if Connor and Tyler refused to pass all season?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Connor · What happens: happen, refuse, not pass

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 484 «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 refused	mark
6	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 refused	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Tyler	cc
8	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Connor	conj
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pass	mark
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refused	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 season	det
13	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pass	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	refuse a condition, not said to happen	past	Connor and Tyler			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not pass	to-infinitive	Connor and Tyler not said here	season		vn occur-48.3-1 «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

The coach would make them captains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the coach	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary captain=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The county team would lose more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 team	det
2	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 team	compound
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the county team	more					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Their rivalry would end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rivalry	nmod:poss
2	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	Their rivalry						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	rival		Their = they						nom rivalry «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They'd both be top scorers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scorers	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scorers	aux
3	both	both	ADV	_	6 scorers	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scorers	cop
5	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scorers	amod
6	scorers	scorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	They	top scorers				both property	tree rules

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