Test 2 · ★★ · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»

What would probably happen if Kacper kept looking after his brothers every night and told no one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kacper · What happens: happen, keep, look, tell · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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	Kacper	Kacper	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 brothers	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looking	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	Kacper				tree rules
3	look	gerund	Kacper not said here		after Kacper's brothers; night		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	Kacper not said here	no one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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

He'd get more rested as time went on

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	5 rested	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rested	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 rested	aux:pass
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 rested	advmod
5	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl:unmarked
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rested	advcl
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	would · passive		He					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go on	past					time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all would change for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	obl

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

Option 3

His homework would get easier and easier

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 homework	nmod:poss
2	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 easier	cc
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 easier	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd stay tired and his school would suffer

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 stay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 suffer	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 school	nmod:poss
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffer	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 suffer	aux
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He					tired property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	suffer	would	his school						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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