Test 5 · The only child: a quiet house

What would probably happen if Jules joined a hockey team?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jules · What happens: happen, join · To what, where: hockey team

This is test 5 of lesson 498 «The only child: a quiet house» 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 joined	mark
6	Jules	Jules	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 joined	nsubj
7	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 team	det
9	hockey	hockey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 team	compound
10	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joined	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	join a condition, not said to happen	past	Jules	a hockey team					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Patient

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 stop being able to talk to any adults ever

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	3 stop	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 adults	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 adults	det
10	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	He			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	He not said here		able property	tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive	He not said here	ever	to any adults	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing; teams don't help anyone make friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
3	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 help	obj
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	teams	anyone					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	infinitive	anyone not said here	friends					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

Option 3

He'd have to give up all his grown-up dinners

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	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dinners	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dinners	nmod:poss
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dinners	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
12	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	would	He		tree rules
2	give up	to-infinitive	He not said here	his grown dinners	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Source
3	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd get practice being silly with kids his age

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	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 silly	cop
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 kids	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silly	obl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 age	nmod:poss
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kids	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He	practice					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer practice=Stimulus
2	is	gerund	practice not said here					with kids; silly property	tree rules

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