Test 4 · Parents who row, and one kind and one not

What would probably happen if Leila kept going to Dad every time Mum said no?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leila, Mum · What happens: happen, keep, go, say · To what, where: Dad, no · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 496 «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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	_	7 kept	mark
6	Leila	Leila	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Dad	case
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl:unmarked
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 said	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Leila					tree rules
3	go	gerund	Leila not said here		Dad	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dad=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Mum	no				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=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 · ← Mova's choice

Mum would start buying all the treats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 treats	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treats	det
7	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Mum						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	buy	gerund	Mum not said here	all treats					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all, it never matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 matters	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 matters	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 matters	advmod
7	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Nothing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Mum and Dad would never row again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 row	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Dad	cc
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 row	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 row	advmod
6	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 row	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not row	would	Mum and Dad				again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More rows between Mum and Dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rows	amod
2	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 Mum	case
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rows	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Dad	cc
6	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mum	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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