Test 3 · Big brothers

What would probably happen if Dante kept following Malik's friends around?

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

This is test 3 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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	Dante	Dante	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	Malik	Malik	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 friends	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Malik	case
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 following	obj
12	around	around	ADV	_	8 following	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	Dante			tree rules
3	follow	gerund	Dante not said here	Malik's friends	around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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

Malik would get more annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Malik	malik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 annoyed	advmod
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Malik					annoyed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They'd make Dante their leader

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 make	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Dante	Dante	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 leader	nmod:poss
6	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	They	their leader	Dante				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dante=Beneficiary leader=Product

Option 3

Malik would thank him for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Malik	malik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 thank	aux
3	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	would	Malik		him = he			for it	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for it=Attribute

Option 4

Nothing would ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing				ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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