Test 4 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

What would most likely happen if Koa told his teacher about his togs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koa · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	Koa	Koa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teacher	nmod:poss
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 togs	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 togs	nmod:poss
13	togs	tog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Koa		Koa's teacher			about Koa's togs	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about tog=Topic

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

He'd be banned from the swimming term

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 banned	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	compound
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	would · passive		He		the swimming term			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from term=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The teacher would phone his dad to shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 phone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 phone	aux
4	phone	phone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 phone	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shout	mark
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 phone	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	phone	would	the teacher		teacher's dad				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	shout speech: express	to-infinitive	the teacher not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The school would lend him some, no fuss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 school	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lend	aux
4	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lend	obj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 lend	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fuss	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fuss	det
9	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	would	the school	some	him = he				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=Theme

Option 4

He'd be told off for not buying new ones

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 told	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 buying	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 buying	advmod
8	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	would · passive		He					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not buy	gerund		new ones					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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