Test 8 · ★★ · Hiding it from friends: being skint at school

What would most likely happen if Jamal kept avoiding his buddy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jamal · What happens: happen, keep, avoid · To what, where: buddy

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 489 «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 kept	mark
7	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 buddy	nmod:poss
11	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 avoiding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Jamal			tree rules
3	avoid	gerund	Jamal not said here	Jamal's buddy		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent buddy=Location

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

Nothing, friends never notice avoiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 friends	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 notice	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	present	Nothing friends						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	avoid	gerund	Nothing friends not said here						vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They'd drift apart over a hot chocolate

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	3 drift	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	aux
3	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 drift	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 chocolate	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chocolate	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chocolate	amod
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift apart	would	They			a hot chocolate		apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over chocolate=Trajectory

Option 3

His buddy would pay for even more drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 buddy	nmod:poss
2	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 drinks	case
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 drinks	amod
8	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	His buddy					for more drinks	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for drink=Theme

Option 4

His buddy would send him a bill for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 buddy	nmod:poss
2	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bill	det
7	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would	His buddy	a bill	him = he			for bill	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bill=Theme

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