Test 8 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours

What would most likely happen if Jasper kept buying the game credit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jasper · What happens: happen, keep, buy · To what, where: game credit

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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	Jasper	Jasper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 credit	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 credit	compound
12	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buying	obj
13	?	?	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	Jasper			tree rules
3	buy	gerund	Jasper not said here	the game credit		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=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 right answer

They'd keep asking for more

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 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 more	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	They						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	They not said here					for more	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They'd buy him credit in return

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 buy	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buy	iobj
5	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 return	case
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	would	They	credit	him = he	return			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary credit=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They'd stop asking by themselves

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 stop	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	They not said here					by themselves = they	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They'd pay him back next week

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 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl:unmarked

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

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